Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Luther King may speak at a memorial service for the three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi, to be held in Memorial Church tomorrow...
King will be in Boston to address the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic Convention, which is meeting tomorrow to decide whether or not to endorse the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's bid to unseat the regular Mississippi 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...
...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...
...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...