Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When these events confront us, we are overwhelmed. Not even the President of the United States can tell a woman whose house has been bombed that she must be patient. Nor can he remain unmoved at the story of just what it is like to be a Negro in Mississippi...
Students who have volunteered to help in this project will enter the state on Oct. 18 and Oct. 26. SNCC hopes to recruit 250 students to help advertise the freedom election and organize the Mississippi Negro communities for the vote...
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...
...similar freedom vote last fall, 30,000 Negroes voted for Henry as governor. Only 25,000 Mississippi Negroes are officially registered...