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MFDP--General papers, 1965-1971, part 2 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 2, Part 2)

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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Though many of these documents are undated, this folder deals exclusively with MFDP elections, and legal actions relating to those elections, from 1963-1966. Five MFDP candidates (Whitley, King, Collins, Guyot, and Hayes) pledge NOT to uphold the segregationist principles of the Democratic Party of Mississippi in their 1966 primary election; they supplement their "Declaration of Independence" with Democratic Party of Mississippi quotations, their own biographical sketches, and a rebuttal of the Party's "Section 3129" which makes candidates pledge to support those primary winners who support segregationist policies. The folder also includes the following: 1966 Mississippi congressional district population and voter registration statistics by race with a notation about which counties now have more African American registered voters than white ones. Clifton Whitley's reply to James O. Eastland on school desegregation. An MFDP pamphlet outlining its 1966 electoral intentions. A list of the
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Reports And Surveys Press Releases Pamphlets Correspondence Legal Documents Forms Flyers And Handbills Memoranda Meeting Minutes
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Keywords

  1. Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903 1998
  2. Adams, Dora
  3. Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
  4. Agriculture
  5. Ainsworth, Robert Andrew, 1910 1981
  6. Alexander, Bryce
  7. Allen, Louis
  8. Anderson, Reuben
  9. Aschenbrenner, Lawrence A
  10. Assault And Battery
  11. Ayers, Jake
  12. Badron, Ellis
  13. Bailey, Howard Taft
  14. Bailey, John
  15. Barnes, Thelma
  16. Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898 1987
  17. Black History
  18. Black Power
  19. Blackwell, Alice
  20. Bowie, Harry
  21. Boyd, Robert D
  22. Bramlett, Leon
  23. Bronstein, Alvin J
  24. Brooks, Gary
  25. Brooks, Owen
  26. Brown, J. L
  27. Brown, R. Jess, 1912
  28. Bryant, C. C
  29. Buffington, John
  30. Bunton, Charles E
  31. Burkes, Marylene
  32. Byrd, Harry F., Jr. (Harry Flood), 1914 2013
  33. Byrd, Joe
  34. Carr, Andrew
  35. Carr, Oscar
  36. Carter, Hodding
  37. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  38. Civil Rights
  39. Civil Rights Workers
  40. Clark, Robert George, 1929
  41. Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909 1969
  42. Clothing And Dress
  43. Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914 1991
  44. Coleman, L. C
  45. Collier, Clinton
  46. Colmer, William Meyers, 1890 1980
  47. Communism
  48. Community Action Programs (U.S.)
  49. Community Centers
  50. Congress Of Racial Equality
  51. Connor, Peggy Jean
  52. Cooperative Societies
  53. Courts
  54. Cox, Harold
  55. Crowell, Catherine
  56. Cupit, Danny
  57. Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908 1966
  58. Darien, Pat
  59. Davis, William A
  60. Dean, Kenneth
  61. Delta Ministry
  62. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  63. Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
  64. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  65. Democratic Party (U.S.)
  66. Derfner, Armand
  67. Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898 1980
  68. Drummond, Dock
  69. Duckworth, C. J
  70. Dye, Brad
  71. Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
  72. Education
  73. Employment
  74. Evers, Charles, 1922
  75. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  76. Fantroy, E. V
  77. Farley, J. C
  78. Farmer, Malcolm
  79. Feldman, Myer, 1914 2007
  80. Food Drives
  81. Franklin, Benjamin
  82. Franklin, Trazwell
  83. Freedom Day
  84. Freedom Vote
  85. Freeman, Charles
  86. Garner, John B
  87. Gilliam, James C
  88. Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
  89. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  90. Gray, H. L., Sr
  91. Griffin, Charles H
  92. Griffin, Marvin
  93. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  94. Hall, Clarence
  95. Hall, Stanton
  96. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  97. Harlan, John Marshall, 1899 1971
  98. Harper, Matthew, Mrs
  99. Harris, Joseph Lewis
  100. Harris, Thomas H
  101. Hawkins, Andrew
  102. Hayden, Carl
  103. Hayes, Ralthus
  104. Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
  105. Hillett, Vivian
  106. House, Lou
  107. Housing
  108. Hughes, Richard F
  109. Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
  110. Hurst, E. E
  111. Hutchinson, Flavous
  112. Ingram, O. W
  113. Intimidation
  114. Inzer, William
  115. Jackson, Wharlest
  116. Johnson, Allen
  117. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
  118. Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
  119. Johnson, Sol
  120. Jones, James
  121. Katzenbach, Nicholas De B. (Nicholas De Belleville), 1922 2012
  122. Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932 2009
  123. Kennedy, John
  124. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
  125. Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
  126. King, Edwin H
  127. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  128. Kleinpeter, J. E
  129. Kneeland, Douglas E
  130. Kochtitzky, R. B
  131. Ku Klux Klan
  132. Labor Unions
  133. Ladner, Heber
  134. Lane, Mary
  135. Lawyers
  136. Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.)
  137. Leach, L. C
  138. Lee, Herbert
  139. Leigh, Sanford
  140. Lewis, James A
  141. Lewis, Robert
  142. Lipscomb, J. Walton
  143. Lott, Hardy
  144. Love, Sam
  145. Magee, Harold T
  146. Mankiewiez, Frank
  147. Marcuse, Peter
  148. Martin, L. J
  149. Mason, Dan Lofton
  150. Mc Carthy, Eugene
  151. Mc Donald, Hubert
  152. Mc Kinney, Philip
  153. Mc Lendon, Martin R
  154. Mc Loone, Phillip J
  155. Medicine
  156. Migration, Internal
  157. Miles, Robert
  158. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  159. Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
  160. Mitchell, W. H
  161. Mitlin, Laurence R
  162. Mondale, Walter F., 1928
  163. Moore, Floyd
  164. Morrissey, William
  165. Murder
  166. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  167. Nero, S. T
  168. Nichols, Floyd
  169. Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913 1994
  170. Oliver, R. Spencer
  171. Page, Matthew J
  172. Parker, Frank R
  173. Parker, John
  174. Patterson, Joseph Turner
  175. Pearson, William W
  176. Perkins, David L
  177. Pigott, Joe N
  178. Pilcher, Pinkie
  179. Police
  180. Poll Tax
  181. Posey, John Phillip
  182. Poverty
  183. Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908 1972
  184. Prather, Robert
  185. Price, Cecil
  186. Public Welfare
  187. Pyles, Dixon L
  188. Rainey, Lawrence A
  189. Ramsay, Claude
  190. Rash, Sammy
  191. Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
  192. Raymond, George
  193. Republican Party (U.S.)
  194. Rhodes, Alfred
  195. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882 1945
  196. Ross, Johnnie
  197. Ruffin, Susie
  198. Russell, Dan M., Jr
  199. Saddler, Ellis
  200. Saltonstall, John, Jr
  201. Sanders, Emma
  202. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  203. Scribner, J. E
  204. Segregation
  205. Sessum, Cecil V
  206. Shriver, Sargent, 1915 2011
  207. Smith, Lamar
  208. Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.)
  209. Sobol, Richard B
  210. Sorenson, Theodore
  211. Southern Conference Educational Fund
  212. Steptoe, E. W
  213. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  214. Sullivan, Charles
  215. Summers, Frank H
  216. Sutton, Percy
  217. Teachers
  218. Thomas, Isaac L
  219. Thomas, Robert
  220. Thompson, Bennie L
  221. Thompson, Hagan
  222. Thurmond, Strom, 1902 2003
  223. Truman, Harry S., 1884 1972
  224. Turner, Irby
  225. Unemployment
  226. United States
  227. United States Commission On Civil Rights
  228. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  229. United States. Department Of Justice
  230. United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
  231. Veterans
  232. Vietnam War, 1961 1975
  233. Voter Registration
  234. Wages
  235. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
  236. Wallace, William, Sr
  237. Waller, Douglas Wayne
  238. Warren, Earl, 1891 1974
  239. Watkins, J. Wesley
  240. Watkins, Toby
  241. Webster, D. Talmadge
  242. Wells, Will
  243. Wentworth, Carolyn Wallace
  244. Wesley, John Daniel
  245. White Citizens Councils
  246. Whitley, Clifton R
  247. Whitten, Jamie
  248. Wilkie, Curtis
  249. Williams, John Bell
  250. Williams, Kenneth
  251. Woodson, Robert
  252. Wright, Fielding (Fielding Lewis), 1895 1956
  253. Wroten, Joseph B
  254. Wynn, Douglas C
  255. Young, Charles
  256. Young, Jack H