Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom vote will be held Oct. 31, Nov. 1, and Nov. 2. On those days the Negroes of Mississippi, largely excluded from the registration rolls in that state, will be able to cast ballots for Johnson or Goldwater at polls set up by the MFDP...
Several Harvard and Radcliffe students will leave for Mississippi next week to help in a "freedom vote" organized by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP...
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...
...Mississippi: Three-term Democrat John C. Stennis, 63, may or may not face opposition from the predominantly Negro Freedom Democratic Party, but it hardly matters. The surest bet around...
...most successful slogans in recent years was a "Vote for clean water" campaign in St. Louis, which led many citizens to believe that a proposed $95 million bond issue would be spent to purify their drinking water. In fact, it was intended to reduce pollution of the Mississippi River downstream from the city, but confused St. Louisans passed the bond issue in a 5-1 landslide. Nothing ambiguous about that...