when she and other delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party were not seated at the national Democratic convention. Instead, the all-white Democratic Party delegation was seated.

She was 17 years old at the time and said that she was once jailed for her advocacy with civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer, who was the co-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

both through her SNCC work and as one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the dominant force in Mississippi politics, the pro-segregation ...

Adams helped establish the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964 and was honored in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston for her efforts to integrate Mississippi's ...

On August 6, 1964 the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party held a statewide convention to elect 68 delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention later that month. It was Mississippi's ...

Much of the effort of the COFO Mississippi Summer Project has been focussed in recent weeks on aiding the attempt of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to unseat the regular ...