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,
Meeting Minutes Press Releases Pamphlets Correspondence Clippings Legal Documents Forms Newsletters Reports And Surveys Memoranda
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- Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903 1998
- Adam, Bidwell, 1894
- Adams, Allean
- Adams, Brock, 1927 2004
- Adams, Dora
- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
- Africa
- Agriculture
- Ahmann, Mathew H
- Albert, Carl Bert, 1908 2000
- Alexander, Bryce
- Allen, Louis
- Allen, S. A
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Americans For Preservation Of The White Race
- Anderson, Charles
- Applewhite, Nellie
- Aptheker, Herbert
- Arrest
- Arson
- Ashmore, Robert
- Assault And Battery
- Ayers, Jake
- Ballard, James
- Barry, Marion, 1936
- Bartley, Velma
- Bass, James
- Bevel, Diane Nash
- Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936 2008
- Bingham, Jonathan
- Binum, Dorothy
- Blackwell, Jeremiah
- Blackwell, Unita, 1933
- Blatnik, John A., 1911 1991
- Bolling, Richard
- Bombings
- Bond, Julian, 1940
- Bowie, Harry
- Boycotts
- Boyd, Robert D
- Braden, Anne
- Brandemas, John
- Brandt, Barbara
- Bronstein, Alvin J
- Brown, John R
- Brown, Levi
- Burleson, Omar
- Burton, Phillip
- Buxton, Warner
- Cameron, John, Rev
- Cannada, Robert
- Cargegie, Alma
- Carr, John
- Carr, Oscar
- Carr, Sam
- Carter, Lonnie
- Carver, Ronald
- Cattlin, David
- Celler, Emanuel, 1888 1981
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clark, Charles
- Clark, Enotra
- Clark, James G
- Clark, Robert George, 1929
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898 1987
- Clothing And Dress
- Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914 1991
- Collier, Clinton
- Colmer, William Meyers, 1890 1980
- Communism
- Community Action Programs (U.S.)
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Connor, Eugene, 1897 1973
- Connor, Peggy Jean
- Conwell, Elijah
- Conyers, John, 1929
- Cosey, Mildred
- Cotton, Dorothy F., 1930
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Courthouses
- Cox, Clayton
- Cox, Harold
- Craig, L. V
- Crockett, Ifom
- Cross Burning
- Crowell, Catherine
- Cunningham, Marion Phyllis
- Cupit, Dan
- Darby, Ross
- Darien, Pat
- Davis, Frank
- Davis, Roosevelt
- De Vine, Annie
- Deacons
- Delta Ministry
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Denton, Partee
- Dilworth, Lee
- Dixon, Chris
- Dorse, Rebecca
- Dorsey, L. C
- Drummond, Dock
- Duckworth, C. J
- Eastland, James Oliver, 1904 1986
- Edwards, Don
- Edwards, O. B
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890 1969
- Elliott, J. Robert, 1910
- Ellis, Frank
- Emmons, David
- Ervin, Samuel
- Estes, Faye
- Evans, Wilson
- Evers, Charles, 1922
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963
- Eviction
- Farmer, James, 1920 1999
- Finer, June
- Flannery, Nicholas
- Food Drives
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Foster, Isaac
- Franklin, A. W
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Schools
- Freedom Vote
- Frentz, Gunter
- Friedel, Samuel
- Gandy, Evelyn
- Gardner, Charles
- Gee, Thomas A
- German, Aaron
- Gladdie, Rosetta
- Glover, Thelma
- Goff, Fred
- Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909 1998
- Goodell, Charles E
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
- Goodman, Janice
- Gordon, Maggie
- Gould, John
- Graham, James
- Grandison, Elvira
- Graves, Charles
- Green, Andrew Lee
- Green, Edith, 1910 1987
- Green, Jo Liana
- Green, Vivianne
- Gregory, Dick
- Guthrie, Benjamin
- Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
- Hahne, Marjorie
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Harris, Jesse
- Harris, Thelma
- Hawkins, Andrew
- Hawkins, Augustus
- Hayden, Tom
- Hayes, Ralthus
- Head Start Programs
- Henderson, A. C
- Henderson, Juadine
- Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
- Herring, Kate
- Higgs, William
- Hill, Thelma
- Hoover, Curtis
- Hopson, Clinton
- Houston, James Monroe
- Hruska, Roman
- Hubbard, Earl
- Hubbard, L. T
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
- Ingram, O. W
- Intimidation
- Jackson, Cleo
- Jackson, Roy
- Jail Experiences
- James, Robert
- Jelinek, Donald A
- Johnson, Allen
- Johnson, Earl, Jr
- Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912 2007
- Johnson, Leroy
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908 1973
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Katzenbach, Nicholas De B. (Nicholas De Belleville), 1922 2012
- Kennard, Clyde
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925 1968
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- King, Clennon
- King, Edwin H
- King, Lou
- King, Marion, 1932 2007
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- King, Slater, 1927 1969
- Kinoy, Arthur
- Kirksey, Henry J
- Kopkind, Andrew
- Ku Klux Klan
- Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919 1995
- Kuykendall, Linda
- Kuykendall, William
- Labor Unions
- Ladner, Heber
- Landrum, Phil
- Lauren, Margaret
- Lawson, James M., 1928
- Lawyers
- Leadership
- Lee, Herbert
- Lerner, Elinor
- Lester, Charles E
- Lewis, John
- Lewton, Mike
- Libraries
- Light, Bill
- Literacy Tests (Election Law)
- Lombard, Posy
- Lowenstein, Steve
- Loyal Democrats Of Mississippi
- Lynd, Staughton
- Magee, Jessie
- Maildin, Byrd P
- Malone, Aaron
- Maples, Anderson
- March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
- Marion, Inez
- Martin, Joe
- Mass Media
- Mayers, Ella Nora
- Mays, James
- Mc Clendon, B. B
- Mc Cormack, John W., 1891 1980
- Mc Laurin, Charles
- Mc Lemore, Leslie Burl
- Mc Long, John Henry
- Medical Committee For Human Rights (U.S.)
- Meissner, Joseph
- Metcalf, George
- Middleton, W. G
- Migration, Internal
- Milam, R. L
- Miles, Robert
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
- Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Mitchell, Clarence
- Moore, Amzie
- Moore, Edna Mae
- Moore, James
- Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
- Morphew, Richard
- Morris, Jesse
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Moss, John
- Murder
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- National Lawyers Guild
- National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.)
- Nedzi, Lucien
- Nelson, Steven R
- Nonviolence
- Nosser, John
- O'connor, Claire
- O'hara, James
- Oden, Sallie
- Palmer, Hazel T
- Patch, Penny
- Patterson, Joseph Turner
- Patterson, W. L
- Pearson, Drew, 1897 1969
- Pemberton, John De J
- Pendleton, Willie
- Percy, Leroy
- Perdew, John, 1941
- Perry, Clara
- Phipps, James Earl
- Pittman, Claude F
- Pittman, Edwin Lloyd, 1935
- Pittman, James
- Police Brutality
- Polk, Richard
- Poll Tax
- Poor People's Corporation
- Posey, John Phillip
- Postal Service
- Poverty
- Pratt, Jack
- Project Help
- Public Welfare
- Puryear, R. W
- Quigles, Margia
- Quinn, Aylene
- Raby, Albert A
- Raines, Annie
- Rainey, Lawrence A
- Ramsey, Claude
- Randoph, A. Philip
- Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
- Reeb, James, 1927 1965
- Reed, Herbert
- Republican Party (U.S.)
- Resnick, Joseph Y. (Joseph Yale), 1924 1969
- Reuther, Walter, 1907 1970
- Rhodes, Alfred
- Richmond, Eddie
- Rimson, Sammy
- Rivers, C. Bell, Mrs
- Roberts, Ralph R
- Rockemore, Dave
- Rogow, Bruce S
- Roosevelt, James, 1907 1991
- Rosenthal, L. H
- Rovere, Richard Halworth, 1915 1979
- Ruffin, Susie
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912 1987
- Ryan, William F., 1922 1972
- Scattergood, Charles
- Schiffman, Alan
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
- Seals, Ira
- Seaver, Ted
- Segregation
- Sellers, Nettie
- Shankle, Ike
- Sharecroppers
- Shaw, John D
- Shell, Dan
- Shelton, George
- Sheriffs
- Shipp, Lucia
- Shoemaker, William C
- Shriver, Sargent, 1915 2011
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922 2011
- Sillers, Walter, 1888 1966
- Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah
- Simpson, Dick
- Slaff, George
- Slocum, Kenneth G
- Smith, Benjamin Eugene
- Social Classes
- Sours, Nancy Ann
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
- Stavis, Morton
- Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901 1995
- Steptoe, E. W
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Students
- Taylor, Anne
- Teachers
- Thomas, Arthur
- Thomas, Lamarr
- Thomas, Willie
- Thompson, Frank
- Threats
- Travis, Brenda
- Tuttle, Elbert P. (Elbert Parr), 1897 1996
- Udall, Morris K
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States Commission On Civil Rights
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
- Universities
- University Of Mississippi
- Usher, John
- Vaughn, Roosevelt
- Veterans
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Voter Registration
- Wages
- Walker, Prentiss, 1917 1998
- Walker, Wyatt Tee
- Waltzer, Bruce C
- War On Poverty
- Ware, Bill
- Warner, Frances
- Washington, Bill
- Washington, Ernestine
- Washington, Pearl
- Wasserman, Jac
- Watkins, Hollis, 1941
- Watson, Albert
- Watts, Sam
- Weathersby, Mable
- Weeks, Stanley
- Weiss, Arnold
- Weissman, Steve
- West, E. Gordon
- Wheadon, Augusta
- White Citizens Councils
- Whites
- Whitley, Clifton R
- Whitten, Jamie
- Wilder, Stella
- Williams, C. J
- Williams, Chris
- Williams, Elmira
- Williams, John Bell
- Williams, Schafer
- Willis, Benjamin
- Willis, Lillie
- Wisdom, John Minor
- Women
- Woods, Birdie Lee
- Yarbrough, George
- Young Democratic Clubs Of Mississippi
- Young, Andrew, 1932
- Young, L. E
- Young, Roosevelt
- Zierden, William
- Zinn, Howard, 1922 2010