For a Voice and the Vote : My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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"During the summer of 1964, more than a thousand individuals 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 (MF...

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Autor principal: Todd, Lisa Anderson
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Todd, Lisa Anderson, > 1942-
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Race relations.
Politics and government.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Suffrage.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Civil rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Noirs americains > Mississippi > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Suffrage > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Biographies.
African Americans > Mississippi > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > Suffrage > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
United States.
Mississippi.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1963-1969.
Mississippi > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In Atlantic City for the Democratic Convention
  • My life before Mississippi
  • Mississippi, 1963 : keeping the waters troubled
  • On to Greensboro, North Carolina, and back to Cornell
  • Planning for Freedom Summer
  • Orientation : how the student volunteers were prepared
  • June 21, 1964
  • Living as a volunteer in Mississippi, 1964
  • My new politics
  • Early work on the convention challenge
  • Lyndon Johnson : the formidable president
  • One woman in Atlantic City
  • Sunday in Atlantic City
  • Humphrey's pleading on Monday
  • Reuther's manipulation on Tuesday
  • The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party turns to protest
  • Wednesday : persuasion fails
  • Victory or defeat
  • Epilogue.

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