Word: mfdp
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Much of the effort of the COFO Mississippi Summer Project has been focussed in recent weeks on aiding the attempt of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to unseat the regular Democratic state delegation to the Atlantic City convention...
...addition to their voter registration drive, COFO workers have helped recruit large numbers of Mississippi Negroes for the MFDP. In Jackson alone, 34,000 persons have joined the party--though the majority of them are not registered to vote...
COFO workers have assisted in organizing county MFDP conventions thoughout the state. Last Thursday the state convention met and selected the Atlantic City delegation...
...week from today the convention Credentials Committee will convene in Washington. The MFDP supporters will attempt to get it seated by using two lines of attack. They will claim, first, that the Mississippi Democratic Party was discriminatory in its selection of delegates. And, second, they will point out all delegates to the convention are pledged to uphold the ideals of the Party; many Mississippi delegates are known Goldwater supporters...