Word: mfdp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aberdeen: Two delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, James Carr and Cora Smith, served with summonses by the local Sheriff. They are to appear in Hinds County Court on Oct. 26 "to answer a bill of complaint" against them "by the state of Mississippi...
...MFDP won a compromise which indicates a turning point in the Democratic Party, which traditionally has been profoundly influenced by lilly-white Southern delegations. Why did the delegation still feel morally incapable of agreeing to the compromise...
Three alternatives are now open to the MFDP. It can remain a small, isolated Mississippi protest group. It can form branches in other states to make a strong Negro voting bloc. Or it can follow its original aim of workin within the structure of the Democratic Party. If it tries to work in the Democratic Party, it may have to realize that a compromise is not necessarily based on betrayal, cowardice, and ignorance, that it is often a part of the process of two strong groups vying for power. Without using the weapon of compromise, the MFDP may remain powerless
...most significant of these political civil rights groups to emerge over the summer is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Curtis Hessler worked on the initial political foray of the MFDP out of Mississippi in Washington and Atlantic City and found the party occasionally naive, often disorganized. His careful analysis of the lobbying efforts of the FDP leading up to the convention is a remarkable story, one that could not have occured five years...
Nancy Moran views the MFDP in a distinctly more limited environment. Her day by day account of the intense debate that occurred within the MFDP over the tactics to be employed at the Democratic convention reveals the virtual vacuum of leadership that seems to be developing within the Negro community. By the end of the convention, the MFDP delegates had effectively rejected both the advice of the Northern leaders and the leaders themselves, Miss Moran notes, and she questions whether there is any effective Negro leadership at present...