Word: mfdp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom vote will be held Oct. 31, Nov. 1, and Nov. 2. On those days the Negroes of Mississippi, largely excluded from the registration rolls in that state, will be able to cast ballots for Johnson or Goldwater at polls set up by the MFDP...
Aaron Henry, a Clarksdale Negro and leading figure in the MFDP, will run against Mississippi Senator John Stennis in the fredom election. But Henry's name will not appear on the official state ballot...
...MFDP will also run candidates against three state representatives...
Second, the MFDP hopes to challenge the legality of Mississippi's congressional elections, maintaining that the congressmen "were elected by a grossly discriminatory voting proceedure," and using the freedom vote as proof of this allegation...
Finally, the MFDP will appeal to the national Democratic party to strip its Mississippi members of their seniority in Congress...