Word: mfdp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several Harvard and Radcliffe students will leave for Mississippi next week to help in a "freedom vote" organized by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP...
...MFDP, the first political protest group for the Negroes in 20-30 years and in Weaver's opinion, hopefully the eventual replacement for the official Democratic party, may be the means of enabling all the people of Mississippi to work out their problems together...
This is the first article in a continuing series pertaining to the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Mr. Cummings spent the past summer on a Council of Federated Organizations project in Holly Springs, Miss. on Hartman Turnbow, also an MFDP delegate to Atlanta City. Turnbow, a local Negro farmer, has been a leading MFDP organizer in Holmes County...
Greenwood: MFDP delegates Dewey Green and Mary Lane, given summonses to appear in court on Oct. 26. Some speculation that all 68 MFDP delegates may be charged with contempt of court for having disobeyed an earlier court order which enjoined the MFDP from functioning...
Marks: Klondike Albert, 19-years-old, attacked by three whites while walking to an MFDP rally. Beaten with a blackjack and a stick and cut severely in the arm; shoulder probably fractured. When local hospital refused treatment, taken to Clarksdale...