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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Todd, Lisa Anderson
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
Todd, Lisa Anderson, > 1942-
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Democratic National Convention > (1964 : > Atlantic City, N.J.)
Democratic National Convention
1900-1999
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Suffrage > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Mississippi > Politics and government > 20th century.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Droits > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Suffrage > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Mississippi > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Politics and government
African Americans > Suffrage
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Politics and government
Race relations
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969.
Mississippi > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1963-1969.
Mississippi
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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