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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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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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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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Meeting Minutes Press Releases Pamphlets Correspondence Clippings Legal Documents Forms Newsletters Reports And Surveys Memoranda
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  1. Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903 1998
  2. Adam, Bidwell, 1894
  3. Adams, Allean
  4. Adams, Brock, 1927 2004
  5. Adams, Dora
  6. Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
  7. Africa
  8. Agriculture
  9. Ahmann, Mathew H
  10. Albert, Carl Bert, 1908 2000
  11. Alexander, Bryce
  12. Allen, Louis
  13. Allen, S. A
  14. American Civil Liberties Union
  15. Americans For Preservation Of The White Race
  16. Anderson, Charles
  17. Applewhite, Nellie
  18. Aptheker, Herbert
  19. Arrest
  20. Arson
  21. Ashmore, Robert
  22. Assault And Battery
  23. Ayers, Jake
  24. Ballard, James
  25. Barry, Marion, 1936
  26. Bartley, Velma
  27. Bass, James
  28. Bevel, Diane Nash
  29. Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936 2008
  30. Bingham, Jonathan
  31. Binum, Dorothy
  32. Blackwell, Jeremiah
  33. Blackwell, Unita, 1933
  34. Blatnik, John A., 1911 1991
  35. Bolling, Richard
  36. Bombings
  37. Bond, Julian, 1940
  38. Bowie, Harry
  39. Boycotts
  40. Boyd, Robert D
  41. Braden, Anne
  42. Brandemas, John
  43. Brandt, Barbara
  44. Bronstein, Alvin J
  45. Brown, John R
  46. Brown, Levi
  47. Burleson, Omar
  48. Burton, Phillip
  49. Buxton, Warner
  50. Cameron, John, Rev
  51. Cannada, Robert
  52. Cargegie, Alma
  53. Carr, John
  54. Carr, Oscar
  55. Carr, Sam
  56. Carter, Lonnie
  57. Carver, Ronald
  58. Cattlin, David
  59. Celler, Emanuel, 1888 1981
  60. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  61. Civil Rights
  62. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  63. Civil Rights Workers
  64. Clark, Charles
  65. Clark, Enotra
  66. Clark, James G
  67. Clark, Robert George, 1929
  68. Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898 1987
  69. Clothing And Dress
  70. Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914 1991
  71. Collier, Clinton
  72. Colmer, William Meyers, 1890 1980
  73. Communism
  74. Community Action Programs (U.S.)
  75. Congress Of Racial Equality
  76. Connor, Eugene, 1897 1973
  77. Connor, Peggy Jean
  78. Conwell, Elijah
  79. Conyers, John, 1929
  80. Cosey, Mildred
  81. Cotton, Dorothy F., 1930
  82. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  83. Courthouses
  84. Cox, Clayton
  85. Cox, Harold
  86. Craig, L. V
  87. Crockett, Ifom
  88. Cross Burning
  89. Crowell, Catherine
  90. Cunningham, Marion Phyllis
  91. Cupit, Dan
  92. Darby, Ross
  93. Darien, Pat
  94. Davis, Frank
  95. Davis, Roosevelt
  96. De Vine, Annie
  97. Deacons
  98. Delta Ministry
  99. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  100. Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
  101. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  102. Democratic Party (U.S.)
  103. Denton, Partee
  104. Dilworth, Lee
  105. Dixon, Chris
  106. Dorse, Rebecca
  107. Dorsey, L. C
  108. Drummond, Dock
  109. Duckworth, C. J
  110. Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
  111. Edwards, Don
  112. Edwards, O. B
  113. Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890 1969
  114. Elliott, J. Robert, 1910
  115. Ellis, Frank
  116. Emmons, David
  117. Ervin, Samuel
  118. Estes, Faye
  119. Evans, Wilson
  120. Evers, Charles, 1922
  121. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
  122. Eviction
  123. Farmer, James, 1920 1999
  124. Finer, June
  125. Flannery, Nicholas
  126. Food Drives
  127. Forman, James, 1928 2005
  128. Foster, Isaac
  129. Franklin, A. W
  130. Freedom Day
  131. Freedom Rides
  132. Freedom Schools
  133. Freedom Vote
  134. Frentz, Gunter
  135. Friedel, Samuel
  136. Gandy, Evelyn
  137. Gardner, Charles
  138. Gee, Thomas A
  139. German, Aaron
  140. Gladdie, Rosetta
  141. Glover, Thelma
  142. Goff, Fred
  143. Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
  144. Goodell, Charles E
  145. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  146. Goodman, Janice
  147. Gordon, Maggie
  148. Gould, John
  149. Graham, James
  150. Grandison, Elvira
  151. Graves, Charles
  152. Green, Andrew Lee
  153. Green, Edith, 1910 1987
  154. Green, Jo Liana
  155. Green, Vivianne
  156. Gregory, Dick
  157. Guthrie, Benjamin
  158. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  159. Hahne, Marjorie
  160. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  161. Harris, Jesse
  162. Harris, Thelma
  163. Hawkins, Andrew
  164. Hawkins, Augustus
  165. Hayden, Tom
  166. Hayes, Ralthus
  167. Head Start Programs
  168. Henderson, A. C
  169. Henderson, Juadine
  170. Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
  171. Herring, Kate
  172. Higgs, William
  173. Hill, Thelma
  174. Hoover, Curtis
  175. Hopson, Clinton
  176. Houston, James Monroe
  177. Hruska, Roman
  178. Hubbard, Earl
  179. Hubbard, L. T
  180. Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
  181. Ingram, O. W
  182. Intimidation
  183. Jackson, Cleo
  184. Jackson, Roy
  185. Jail Experiences
  186. James, Robert
  187. Jelinek, Donald A
  188. Johnson, Allen
  189. Johnson, Earl, Jr
  190. Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912 2007
  191. Johnson, Leroy
  192. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
  193. Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
  194. Katzenbach, Nicholas De B. (Nicholas De Belleville), 1922 2012
  195. Kennard, Clyde
  196. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
  197. Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
  198. Kenyatta, Jomo
  199. King, Clennon
  200. King, Edwin H
  201. King, Lou
  202. King, Marion, 1932 2007
  203. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  204. King, Slater, 1927 1969
  205. Kinoy, Arthur
  206. Kirksey, Henry J
  207. Kopkind, Andrew
  208. Ku Klux Klan
  209. Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919 1995
  210. Kuykendall, Linda
  211. Kuykendall, William
  212. Labor Unions
  213. Ladner, Heber
  214. Landrum, Phil
  215. Lauren, Margaret
  216. Lawson, James M., 1928
  217. Lawyers
  218. Leadership
  219. Lee, Herbert
  220. Lerner, Elinor
  221. Lester, Charles E
  222. Lewis, John
  223. Lewton, Mike
  224. Libraries
  225. Light, Bill
  226. Literacy Tests (Election Law)
  227. Lombard, Posy
  228. Lowenstein, Steve
  229. Loyal Democrats Of Mississippi
  230. Lynd, Staughton
  231. Magee, Jessie
  232. Maildin, Byrd P
  233. Malone, Aaron
  234. Maples, Anderson
  235. March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
  236. Marion, Inez
  237. Martin, Joe
  238. Mass Media
  239. Mayers, Ella Nora
  240. Mays, James
  241. Mc Clendon, B. B
  242. Mc Cormack, John W., 1891 1980
  243. Mc Laurin, Charles
  244. Mc Lemore, Leslie Burl
  245. Mc Long, John Henry
  246. Medical Committee For Human Rights (U.S.)
  247. Meissner, Joseph
  248. Metcalf, George
  249. Middleton, W. G
  250. Migration, Internal
  251. Milam, R. L
  252. Miles, Robert
  253. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  254. Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
  255. Mississippi State Penitentiary
  256. Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
  257. Mitchell, Clarence
  258. Moore, Amzie
  259. Moore, Edna Mae
  260. Moore, James
  261. Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
  262. Morphew, Richard
  263. Morris, Jesse
  264. Moses, Robert Parris
  265. Moss, John
  266. Murder
  267. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  268. National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
  269. National Lawyers Guild
  270. National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.)
  271. Nedzi, Lucien
  272. Nelson, Steven R
  273. Nonviolence
  274. Nosser, John
  275. O'connor, Claire
  276. O'hara, James
  277. Oden, Sallie
  278. Palmer, Hazel T
  279. Patch, Penny
  280. Patterson, Joseph Turner
  281. Patterson, W. L
  282. Pearson, Drew, 1897 1969
  283. Pemberton, John De J
  284. Pendleton, Willie
  285. Percy, Leroy
  286. Perdew, John, 1941
  287. Perry, Clara
  288. Phipps, James Earl
  289. Pittman, Claude F
  290. Pittman, Edwin Lloyd, 1935
  291. Pittman, James
  292. Police Brutality
  293. Polk, Richard
  294. Poll Tax
  295. Poor People's Corporation
  296. Posey, John Phillip
  297. Postal Service
  298. Poverty
  299. Pratt, Jack
  300. Project Help
  301. Public Welfare
  302. Puryear, R. W
  303. Quigles, Margia
  304. Quinn, Aylene
  305. Raby, Albert A
  306. Raines, Annie
  307. Rainey, Lawrence A
  308. Ramsey, Claude
  309. Randoph, A. Philip
  310. Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
  311. Reeb, James, 1927 1965
  312. Reed, Herbert
  313. Republican Party (U.S.)
  314. Resnick, Joseph Y. (Joseph Yale), 1924 1969
  315. Reuther, Walter, 1907 1970
  316. Rhodes, Alfred
  317. Richmond, Eddie
  318. Rimson, Sammy
  319. Rivers, C. Bell, Mrs
  320. Roberts, Ralph R
  321. Rockemore, Dave
  322. Rogow, Bruce S
  323. Roosevelt, James, 1907 1991
  324. Rosenthal, L. H
  325. Rovere, Richard Halworth, 1915 1979
  326. Ruffin, Susie
  327. Rustin, Bayard, 1912 1987
  328. Ryan, William F., 1922 1972
  329. Scattergood, Charles
  330. Schiffman, Alan
  331. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  332. Seals, Ira
  333. Seaver, Ted
  334. Segregation
  335. Sellers, Nettie
  336. Shankle, Ike
  337. Sharecroppers
  338. Shaw, John D
  339. Shell, Dan
  340. Shelton, George
  341. Sheriffs
  342. Shipp, Lucia
  343. Shoemaker, William C
  344. Shriver, Sargent, 1915 2011
  345. Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922 2011
  346. Sillers, Walter, 1888 1966
  347. Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah
  348. Simpson, Dick
  349. Slaff, George
  350. Slocum, Kenneth G
  351. Smith, Benjamin Eugene
  352. Social Classes
  353. Sours, Nancy Ann
  354. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  355. Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
  356. Stavis, Morton
  357. Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901 1995
  358. Steptoe, E. W
  359. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  360. Students
  361. Taylor, Anne
  362. Teachers
  363. Thomas, Arthur
  364. Thomas, Lamarr
  365. Thomas, Willie
  366. Thompson, Frank
  367. Threats
  368. Travis, Brenda
  369. Tuttle, Elbert P. (Elbert Parr), 1897 1996
  370. Udall, Morris K
  371. Unemployment
  372. United States
  373. United States Commission On Civil Rights
  374. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  375. United States. Department Of Justice
  376. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  377. United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
  378. Universities
  379. University Of Mississippi
  380. Usher, John
  381. Vaughn, Roosevelt
  382. Veterans
  383. Vietnam War, 1961 1975
  384. Voter Registration
  385. Wages
  386. Walker, Prentiss, 1917 1998
  387. Walker, Wyatt Tee
  388. Waltzer, Bruce C
  389. War On Poverty
  390. Ware, Bill
  391. Warner, Frances
  392. Washington, Bill
  393. Washington, Ernestine
  394. Washington, Pearl
  395. Wasserman, Jac
  396. Watkins, Hollis, 1941
  397. Watson, Albert
  398. Watts, Sam
  399. Weathersby, Mable
  400. Weeks, Stanley
  401. Weiss, Arnold
  402. Weissman, Steve
  403. West, E. Gordon
  404. Wheadon, Augusta
  405. White Citizens Councils
  406. Whites
  407. Whitley, Clifton R
  408. Whitten, Jamie
  409. Wilder, Stella
  410. Williams, C. J
  411. Williams, Chris
  412. Williams, Elmira
  413. Williams, John Bell
  414. Williams, Schafer
  415. Willis, Benjamin
  416. Willis, Lillie
  417. Wisdom, John Minor
  418. Women
  419. Woods, Birdie Lee
  420. Yarbrough, George
  421. Young Democratic Clubs Of Mississippi
  422. Young, Andrew, 1932
  423. Young, L. E
  424. Young, Roosevelt
  425. Zierden, William
  426. Zinn, Howard, 1922 2010