Papers, 1965.

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Papers, 1965.

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Papers of a college student who worked with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party voter registration program in Jackson; including a manuscript article describing her jailing in June 1965 after participating in a demonstration, comments on the manuscript by others, a published version of the article, and newsclippings on the demonstration.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party created in 1964 as a branch of the populist Freedom Democratic organization in the state of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. It was organized by African Americans and whites from Mississippi to challenge the established power of the Mississippi Democratic Party, which at the time allowed participation only by whites, when African-Americans made up 40% of...

Silver, Janet G.

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