Werner--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Congressional Challenge (Hank Werner papers; Z: Accessions, M71-358, Box 2, Folder 14)
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Werner, Hank
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This folder is primarily devoted to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and its Congressional Challenge. It opens with the familiar COFO pamphlet on the MFDP. The folder also includes the following: a press release about the MFDP's (lack of a) position on the War in Vietnam. Joseph Meissner and Steven R. Nelson's 1965 questions and answers about the Mississippi Congressional Challenge. Part of the September 17, 1965, Congressional Record on Congress's dismissal of the Congressional Challenge. Lawrence Guyot's letter to MFDP supporters on the disappointing Congressional Challenge results. The MFDP's passionate October 1965 statement before the Democratic Party's Equal Rights Committee, castigating the Democratic Party of Mississippi for its lack of loyalty to the national Democratic Party, while detailing the MFDP's history and loyalty. There is a late October 1965 MFDP report to its supporters, documenting continuing discrimination by county registrars, jailing of protesters, re
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- Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903 1998
- Adam, Bidwell, 1894
- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
- Agriculture
- Albert, Carl Bert, 1908 2000
- Alexander, Bryce
- Americans For Preservation Of The White Race
- Arson
- Assault And Battery
- Bailey, John
- Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898 1987
- Bass, James
- Blackwell, Unita, 1933
- Bombings
- Bowie, Harry
- Boycotts
- Brown, John R
- Cameron, John, Rev
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- Church Buildings
- Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909 1969
- Clothing And Dress
- Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914 1991
- Collier, Clinton
- Colmer, William
- Community Action Programs (U.S.)
- Cooperative Societies
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Courthouses
- Cox, Harold
- Cross Burning
- Delta Ministry
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Devine, Annie
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Employment
- Dorsey, L. C
- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
- Education
- Elections
- Eviction
- Food Drives
- Freedom Vote
- Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hawkins, Gus
- Henderson, Juadine
- Hopson, Clinton
- Houston, James Monroe
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
- Intimidation
- Jail Experiences
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Katzenbach, Nicholas De B. (Nicholas De Belleville), 1922 2012
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- King, Edwin H
- King, Lou
- Ku Klux Klan
- Lawrence, David Leo, 1889 1966
- Lombard, Posy
- Martin, Joe
- Mass Media
- Mc Long, John Henry
- Meissner, Joseph
- Meredith, James, 1933
- Metcalf, George
- Miller, William
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Murder
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Nelson, Steven R
- Nosser, John
- Patterson, Joseph Turner
- Police Brutality
- Price, Cecil
- Public Welfare
- Rainey, Lawrence A
- Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
- Republican Party (U.S.)
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Segregation
- Shaw, John D
- Shriver, Sargent, 1915 2011
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Stevenson, Adlai A., 1930
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Thelwell, Mike
- Threats
- Travis, Brenda
- Unemployment
- United Nations
- United States
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
- Universities
- University Of Mississippi
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Voter Registration
- Wages
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
- War On Poverty
- Warren, Earl, 1891 1974
- Weeks, Stanley
- Weiss, Arnold
- White Citizens Councils
- Whitley, Clifton R
- Whitten, Jamie
- Williams, John Bell
- Yerger, Wirt A., 1930