Download or read book For a Voice and the Vote written by Lisa Anderson Todd and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the summer of 1964, hundreds of American college students descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vote. Student organizers, volunteers, and community members canvassed black neighborhoods to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), a group that sought to give a voice to black Mississippians and demonstrate their will to vote in the face of terror and intimidation. In For a Voice and the Vote, author Lisa Anderson Todd gives a fascinating insider's account of her experience volunteering in Greenville, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, when she participated in organizing the MFDP. Innovative and integrated, the party provided political education, ran candidates for office, and offered participation in local and statewide meetings for blacks who were denied the vote. For Todd, it was an exciting, dangerous, and life-changing experience. Offering the first full account of the group's five days in Atlantic City, the book draws on primary sources, oral histories, and the author's personal interviews of individuals who were supporters of the MFDP in 1964.
Download or read book Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party written by and published by . This book was released on 1964* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Background Papers on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party written by Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Primer for Delegates to the Democratic National Convention Who Haven t Heard about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party written by Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Politics of Change written by Rachel B Reinhard and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)...gives us some of our most inspiring examples of grassroots leaders and some profound lessons about the limits of mid-twentieth-century liberalism. -Prof. Charles M. Payne, author I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. This powerful account of the rise and fall of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) is essential reading, both for those who want to understand what happened to the 1960s civil rights movement in the Deep South and the nation, and for those active today to bring freedom, equality and justice to the United States. It is especially relevant in this period of widespread discussion of racism in America. MFDP sought to replace the racist "regulars" of the Mississippi Democratic Party with a Black-led, movement informed, Democratic Party. It emerged from a parallel organizing process involving young African-American organizers and activists, and their generational elders. It invited both poor, formally illiterate, and middle-class Black Mississippians into leadership positions. The Politics of Change carefully analyzes the status quo forces of cooptation and marginalization with which social change efforts must contend. Equally important, it examines internal weaknesses within organizations that must be overcome to achieve significant social change. Today, when people talk about the racial integration of the political process in Mississippi, they summarize what happened in four words: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Download or read book Politics of Change written by Rachel B. Reinhard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Local People written by John Dittmer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi
Download or read book Brief Submitted by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party for the Consideration of Credentials Subcommittee of the Democratic National Committee the Democratic National Committee Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention Delegates to the Democratic National Convention written by Joseph L. Rauh and published by . This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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