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The Mississippi Democratic Party has a vision rooted in competence ... We’ll restore and expand your freedom to vote whether it’s fixing the broken ballot initiative process, restoring voting rights ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.