Word: mfdp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SNCC, which recruited nearly 1000 students for last summer's civil rights project in Mississippi, will have this year's volunteers conduct three weeks of intensive lobbying and "non-violent direct action" to support the MFDP's Challenge...
...MFDP is charging that the election of the Mississippi congressmen last November is legal because large numbers of Negroes were denied the opportunity to register and vote. The House voted 276-149 to allow the five Mississippi representatives to take their seats while the congressional challenge is pending...
...MFDP maneuvers began Jan. 4, the first day of the 88th Congress, when the party's lobbyists managed to force a roll-call vote on the question of seating the Mississippi congressmen. The five were seated by a 276-148 vote, but the door was left open for the MFDP to pursue its challenge...
Under law, the MFDP has 40 days to gather testimony supporting its case, and this was the purpose of today's hearing before a notary public...
After the MFDP has had its 40 days, the congressmen from Mississippi have the same right to 40 additional days...