Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi. Negroes from the Magnolia State are going to flock to Chicago this summer in a replay of the 1964 Atlantic City attempt to unseat the party regulars. That year the party handed Negroes a compromise, seating of two of the challengers as guests; this time, a compromise will be more difficult...
There is, above all, a massive wellspring of sympathy in Chicago's ghetto for Mississippi civil rights activity. Most of the city's nearly one million Negroes have roots in Mississippi. "Chicago, Chicago, that's all you ever hear around here," says an ex-plantation worker in Greenville, Miss. Negroes in the Delta speak not of going North but of going to Chicago; and for Negroes in Chicago, going home means a visit to Mississippi...
...Negroes challengers from Mississippi are forced to sit outside the convention hall as they were in Atlantic City, they are sure to be joined by throngs of irate supporters and by every black power firebrand in town...
Delegations from two states--Mississippi and Alabama--are likely to be challenged. Party regulars in both states should have little difficulty in complying with the broad civil rights guidelines set down by the Democratic National Committee. The guides say only that party elections--as for county convention delegates--must be open to Negroes; they do not say that the national convention delegations must actually be integrated...
...Even in Mississippi, with 42 per cent of the population Negro and a dozen counties capable of electing Negro officials, fair elections would not necessarily result in any Negroes on the delegation. It is selected by a statewide convention whose delegates are in turn chosen at the county level. Negroes could not possibly gain a majority of the state's 82 counties...