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Word: mfdp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...down to the court house to register was not the main job. Perhaps 200 Negroes took the voter registration test in Marshall County, 350 in Benton and a similar number in De Soto. But in two months the Holly' project registered 5500 people in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party (MFDP). Of Benton County's 1419 Negroes over 21 years old, 1100 were "freedom registered...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

...ironic effects of the MFDP's crusade has been to squeeze President Johnson in a tight political vise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COFO Workers Help to Organize Miss. Freedom Democratic Party | 8/11/1964 | See Source »

...MFDP is not seated, Johnson probably will not feel the effects of a Negro backlash at the polls in November, since Goldwater's nomination did not leave them with much choice in the election. But Robert Moses, head of the Mississippi Summer Project, indicated privately last week two possible consequences of Presidential opposition to the MFDP...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COFO Workers Help to Organize Miss. Freedom Democratic Party | 8/11/1964 | See Source »

...Johnson could be faced with widespread riots and demonstrations in the North; there are, reportedly, plans to publicize the MFDP campaign for recognition in Harlem and other Northern cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COFO Workers Help to Organize Miss. Freedom Democratic Party | 8/11/1964 | See Source »

...other hand, the MFDP delegation is seated in Atlantic City, it will be a slap at the majority of Democrats in the Magnolia State and throughout the South. Johnson knows that his political support below the Mason-Dixon line is tottering. Supporting the MFDP won't endear him to many white Southerners, and the obvious compromise--seating both delegations--would not appease them, and would in fact, be a major victory for Negroes and civil rights workers in Mississippi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COFO Workers Help to Organize Miss. Freedom Democratic Party | 8/11/1964 | See Source »

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