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...Collins dragged me along to a house around the corner, a dull grey frame woodshed. The one-room shed had been built by Presley Franklin's father and a few other people caught up in the "Movement," the atrophied remainder of the county's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), the party that had elected black representatives from all over the state in 1964 and sent them to Atlantic City to challenge the all-white official delegation. The hut was to hold the weekly citizenship classes. It was built from the foundations of an old church. Now the benches had been...
There is a long history of rancor between the MFDP and the Young Dem-NAACP coaliiton. A meeting between leaders of the two groups last month resulted in little agreement on whether to join forces in a challenge, but another meeting is scheduled for next week...
...MFDP delegation would stand no chance of being seated. It embarrassed the party in '64, squawked loudly over the compromise, and is now so fragmented that it could not possibly claim to represent more than a half dozen counties...
Lowenstein, while a professor in 1963 at North Carolina State, was one of the prime movers behind a black Mississippi "mock election" which gave birth to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). The election also served as a pilot project for a student movement which was later called the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The publicity which a group of about 50 college volunteers mainly from Yale and Stanford received in their hometown newspapers for their participation in the "mock election" prompted Lowenstein and one or two others to organize the "Freedom Summer" project which sent 600 campus volunteers to Mississippi. Lowenstein...
...summer of 1964, when he was not campaigning in Humphrey's "Happy Warrior" plane, he spent working in the struggle to seat the MFDP at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. The extremely bitter fight alienated him from most of the black activists whom he had been friendly with in SNCC and CORE...