MFDP--General papers, 1965-1971, part 1 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 2, Part 1)
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- 1965-1966;
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A description of the overall contents of the MFDP files in the Wisconsin Historical Society, including a short history of the MFDP, opens this folder. This particular MFDP folder deals largely with the MFDP's "Congressional Challenge": its efforts to prevent the seating of white segregationist Mississippi congressmen in 1965 on the grounds that they were elected unfairly as African Americans had been systematically prevented from voting in their elections. Other topics deal with the advent of the War on Poverty--many of whose programs were administered by segregationists to the detriment of the people for whom it was intended--and the increasingly desperate conditions of displaced Delta agricultural workers by 1966. The folder includes minutes from a statewide MFDP meeting held in May 1965 which call for a march in Jackson in support of the congressional challenge and to publicize the need for free elections. A variety of press releases about the basis for the congressional challenge,
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Democratic Party (Miss.)
Voter registration
Freedom Vote
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Loyal Democrats of Mississippi
Young Democratic Clubs of Mississippi
Literacy tests (election law)
Freedom Day
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
Labor unions
Threats
Intimidation
White Citizens councils
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Eviction
Bombings
Assault and battery
Unemployment
Civil rights workers
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Congress of Racial Equality
United States. Department of Justice
Americans for Preservation of the White Race
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Murder
Lawyers
Sheriffs
Arson
United States Commission on Civil Rights
Arrest
Courthouses
Sharecroppers
Poll tax
Mass media
Postal service
University of Mississippi
Students
Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Whites
Women
Jail experiences
Police brutality
Veterans
Mississippi State Penitentiary
Teachers
Republican Party (U.S.)
Communism
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Segregation
Ku Klux Klan
Cross burning
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Wages
Agriculture
Public welfare
Africa
Freedom rides
Clothing and dress
Nonviolence
Food drives
Leadership
Civil rights demonstrations
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Deacons
American Civil Liberties Union
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
National Lawyers Guild
Freedom schools
Social classes
War on Poverty
Community Action Programs (U.S.)
Head Start programs
Boycotts
National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.)
Poverty
Poor People's Corporation
Project Help
Migration, internal
Delta Ministry
Libraries
Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Cameron, John, Rev
Houston, James Monroe
Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995
Whitten, Jamie
Colmer, William Meyers, 1890-1980
Williams, John Bell
Clark, Robert George, 1929
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012
Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
Emmons, David
McLemore, Leslie Burl
Ruffin, Susie
Palmer, Hazel T
Taylor, Anne
Hill, Thelma
Gould, John
Rivers, C. Bell, Mrs
Brown, Levi
Miles, Robert
Quinn, Aylene
Moore, Edna Mae
Gladdie, Rosetta
Oden, Sallie
Grandison, Elvira
DeVine, Annie
Carter, Lonnie
Ware, Bill
Watkins, Hollis, 1941
Green, Andrew Lee
Young, L. E
Pittman, James
Connor, Peggy Jean
Kirksey, Henry J
Johnson, Earl, Jr
Morphew, Richard
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Farmer, James, 1920-1999
Lewis, John
Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903-1998
Walker, Prentiss, 1917-1998
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981
Slaff, George
Reeb, James, 1927-1965
Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Kinoy, Arthur
Stavis, Morton
Smith, Benjamin Eugene
Waltzer, Bruce C
Lewton, Mike
Jackson, Roy
Darby, Ross
Hubbard, Earl
Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991
Williams, Chris
Williams, Schafer
Patch, Penny
Kuykendall, William
Williams, C. J
Thomas, Lamarr
Seals, Ira
Kuykendall, Linda
Middleton, W. G
Gardner, Charles
Perry, Clara
Milam, R. L
O'Connor, Claire
Lester, Charles E
Shankle, Ike
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
Ladner, Heber
Patterson, Joseph Turner
Rosenthal, L. H
McCormack, John W., 1891-1980
Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000
Ryan, William F., 1922-1972
Watson, Albert
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998
Landrum, Phil
Slocum, Kenneth G
Lauren, Margaret
Goodman, Janice
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
King, Clennon
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986
Cox, Harold
Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Ellis, Frank
West, E. Gordon
Elliott, J. Robert, 1910
Wisdom, John Minor
Brown, John R
Tuttle, Elbert P. (Elbert Parr), 1897-1996
Weissman, Steve
Barry, Marion, 1936
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
Gregory, Dick
Raby, Albert A
Willis, Benjamin
Cox, Clayton
Hahne, Marjorie
Sours, Nancy Ann
Green, Jo Liana
Green, Vivianne
Lerner, Elinor
Quigles, Margia
Kennard, Clyde
Roberts, Ralph R
Burleson, Omar
McClendon, B. B
Burton, Phillip
Green, Edith, 1910-1987
Conyers, John, 1929
Edwards, Don
Guthrie, Benjamin
Cosey, Mildred
Applewhite, Nellie
Willis, Lillie
Washington, Ernestine
Hawkins, Andrew
Vaughn, Roosevelt
Graham, James
Cattlin, David
Reed, Herbert
Adams, Brock, 1927-2004
Perdew, John, 1941
Duckworth, C. J
Clark, Charles
Cannada, Robert
Shell, Dan
Pittman, Edwin Lloyd, 1935
Pittman, Claude F
Weathersby, Mable
Glover, Thelma
Gordon, Maggie
Dixon, Chris
Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah
Cunningham, Marion Phyllis
Finer, June
Pratt, Jack
German, Aaron
Ramsey, Claude
Schiffman, Alan
Light, Bill
Scattergood, Charles
Carver, Ronald
Ervin, Samuel
Hruska, Roman
King, Edwin H
Shaw, John D
Martin, Joe
Hopson, Clinton
Braden, Anne
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008
Bevel, Diane Nash
Lawson, James M., 1928
Clark, James G
Connor, Eugene, 1897-1973
Moses, Robert Parris
Bond, Julian, 1940
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Moore, Amzie
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987
Cotton, Dorothy F., 1930
Young, Andrew, 1932
Lee, Herbert
Allen, Louis
Travis, Brenda
Raines, Annie
Walker, Wyatt Tee
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
King, Slater, 1927-1969
King, Marion, 1932-2007
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Evers, Charles, 1922
Darien, Pat
Cupit, Dan
Rhodes, Alfred
Posey, John Phillip
Johnson, Allen
Evans, Wilson
Franklin, A. W
Ingram, O. W
Boyd, Robert D
Carr, Oscar
Meissner, Joseph
Nelson, Steven R
Higgs, William
Pemberton, John de J
Randoph, A. Philip
Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Ahmann, Mathew H
Goodell, Charles E
Ashmore, Robert
Binum, Dorothy
Rimson, Sammy
Bingham, Jonathan
Nedzi, Lucien
Friedel, Samuel
Brandemas, John
Hawkins, Augustus
Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970
Rovere, Richard Halworth, 1915-1979
Thompson, Frank
Blatnik, John A., 1911-1991
Bolling, Richard
Moss, John
O'Hara, James
Udall, Morris K
Kopkind, Andrew
Mitchell, Clarence
Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-2012
Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011
Johnson, Leroy
Henderson, Juadine
King, Lou
Weeks, Stanley
Blackwell, Unita, 1933
Dorsey, L. C
Bass, James
Weiss, Arnold
McLong, John Henry
Metcalf, George
Nosser, John
Bowie, Harry
Lombard, Posy
Shoemaker, William C
Wheadon, Augusta
Hayes, Ralthus
Crowell, Catherine
Conwell, Elijah
Cargegie, Alma
Sillers, Walter, 1888-1966
Yarbrough, George
Williams, Elmira
Woods, Birdie Lee
Carr, Sam
Blackwell, Jeremiah
Mays, James
Dilworth, Lee
Lynd, Staughton
Hayden, Tom
Aptheker, Herbert
Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
Collier, Clinton
Whitley, Clifton R
Warner, Frances
Gandy, Evelyn
McLaurin, Charles
Shelton, George
Crockett, Ifom
Bartley, Velma
Shipp, Lucia
Goff, Fred
Sellers, Nettie
Herring, Kate
Edwards, O. B
Graves, Charles
Adams, Dora
Ballard, James
Estes, Faye
Harris, Thelma
Marion, Inez
Davis, Roosevelt
Simpson, Dick
Buxton, Warner
Clark, Enotra
Rainey, Lawrence A
Magee, Jessie
Brandt, Barbara
Carr, John
Richmond, Eddie
Young, Roosevelt
Dorse, Rebecca
Davis, Frank
Malone, Aaron
Hoover, Curtis
Moore, James
Resnick, Joseph Y. (Joseph Yale), 1924-1969
Ayers, Jake
Thomas, Arthur
Foster, Isaac
Frentz, Gunter
Morris, Jesse
Adams, Allean
Jackson, Cleo
Gee, Thomas A
Harris, Jesse
Steptoe, E. W
James, Robert
Seaver, Ted
Wasserman, Jac
Usher, John
Watts, Sam
Phipps, James Earl
Kenyatta, Jomo
Rockemore, Dave
Maples, Anderson
Percy, Leroy
Patterson, W. L
Pendleton, Willie
Puryear, R. W
Alexander, Bryce
Anderson, Charles
Flannery, Nicholas
Craig, L. V
Denton, Partee
Allen, S. A
Lowenstein, Steve
Henderson, A. C
Zierden, William
Wilder, Stella
Polk, Richard
Thomas, Willie
Washington, Bill
Washington, Pearl
Mayers, Ella Nora
Hubbard, L. T
Adam, Bidwell, 1894
Maildin, Byrd P
Drummond, Dock
Bronstein, Alvin J
Jelinek, Donald A
Rogow, Bruce S - Location
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- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. MFDP--General papers, 1965-1971, part 1 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 2, Part 1). 1965-1966. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/40578. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, (1965-1966) MFDP--General papers, 1965-1971, part 1 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 2, Part 1). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/40578
- MLA citation style
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll2/id/40578>.