Word: mfdp
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...original resolution, initiated by Jerry Umanski '67, recognized the MFDP as "Mississippi's legal party organization." It was attacked on the grounds that participation in an intraparty feud would only "embarrass the state and national parties...
Aaron Henry, a Clarksdale Negro and leading figure in the MFDP, will run against Mississippi Senator John Stennis in the fredom election. But Henry's name will not appear on the official state ballot...
...MFDP will also run candidates against three state representatives...
Second, the MFDP hopes to challenge the legality of Mississippi's congressional elections, maintaining that the congressmen "were elected by a grossly discriminatory voting proceedure," and using the freedom vote as proof of this allegation...
Finally, the MFDP will appeal to the national Democratic party to strip its Mississippi members of their seniority in Congress...