• The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed...
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  • The Mississippi Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Mississippi. The party headquarters is located in Jackson, Mississippi...
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    Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer (sometimes referred to as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project), was a...
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    The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...
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  • Lawrence Guyot (category People from Pass Christian, Mississippi)
    Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964. Guyot was a native of Pass Christian, Mississippi, where he was raised Catholic. He joined the Freedom Movement...
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  • Victoria Gray Adams (category People from Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
    activist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She was one of the founding members of the influential Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Born as Victoria Almeter...
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  • worked for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which challenged the denial of voting rights to African Americans in Mississippi. In 1969 he was...
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    Aaron Henry (politician) (category Activists from Mississippi)
    politician, and head of the Mississippi branch of the NAACP. He was one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which tried to seat their...
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    the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Medical...
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  • the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Both the official delegation and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party went to the 1964 Democratic National...
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  • the "Freedom Party" against the official state Democratic Party candidates. In 1964, organizers launched the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)...
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    smoothly. Aside from a minor controversy over the Mississippi delegation (see Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party), the convention went as planned; in keeping...
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    1, 2014). For a Voice and the Vote: My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. University Press of Kentucky. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-8131-4717-8...
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    civil rights activist Victoria Gray Adams, a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in a landslide. Even as Republican Barry Goldwater defeated...
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    in Mississippi and establish Freedom Schools. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was established to challenge the all-white Democratic Party of...
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    to Mississippi to join with local activists to register voters, teach in "Freedom Schools" and organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Many...
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    the "Freedom Party" against the official state Democratic Party candidates. In 1964, organizers launched the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)...
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  • Ed King (activist) (category People from Vicksburg, Mississippi)
    co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), a member of the Democratic National Committee, and a delegate to three Democratic National Conventions...
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    participated. The Freedom Vote directly led to the creation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). In addition to a poll tax, the Mississippi voting...
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    and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. As part of his work...
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    alternative to the Democratic Party in Mississippi that would adopt the national party's platform (see Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party). By creating regional...
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    Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) is a political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota affiliated with the national Democratic Party. The party was...
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  • reported. Democratic Party – 46,121,872 Republican Party – 36,556,705 American Independent Party – 834,730 Libertarian Party – 704,455 Independent Party of Florida...
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    was that there were competing delegations from Mississippi. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which included black and white members opposed...
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    George Raymond Jr. (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a Freedom Rider, and head of the Congress of Racial Equality in Mississippi in the 1960s. Raymond...
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  • Democratic Party of Alabama in 1968, which was modeled after the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and ran Cashin for governor against George Wallace in 1970...
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    liberals in Mississippi. They wanted to develop alternatives to both the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the all-white Democratic Regulars. In...
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  • the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which similarly issued an all black slate of candidates in opposition to the white only slate of Democratic Candidates...
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    Mississippi for the straw Freedom Vote, to demonstrate the people's ambition and eagerness to vote. In 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
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    in the Deep South. Affiliates such as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama also worked to increase...
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