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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.

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 ...

Claude Weaver '65-3, who spent a year in the state and a summer as project director in Panola County, explained that the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while perhaps the most significant ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, who’s under indictment on federal bribery and conspiracy charges, is fighting to ...

Four medals are to be awarded posthumously. They are going to Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act ...

The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, who’s under indictment on federal bribery and conspiracy charges, is fighting to keep his job ...

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.

(AP) — The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city ... “What’s different is that he came very close to winning the Democratic Party nomination outright; and what’s different as well is ...