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SNCC GROUPS AND THEIR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS MUST, IN THE LAST THREE WEEKS IN DECEMBER DO THE FOLLOWING:
1. Disseminate to as wide an audience as possible the real issues
2. Create local interest which will influence Congressman
to support FDP
3. Contact congressmen when they are home at Christmas and
urge them:
A. to support the challenge and the delayed seating
fairness motion
B. to co-author or vote for the delayed seating fairness
resolution
C. to request a roll-call vote on all issues concerning
the contest
Delegations are being organised by Friends of SNCC Groups-
contact your local SNCC group or arrange your own
delegation in other areas. Try to take a returned Mississippi
volunteer on your visit.
4. Report to MFDP at 1353 U St, NW, Washington DC on the
interviews.
5. Devise a form for publicizing whatever support your
congressman may give and publicize the challenge in all
your organizations and groups
6. Request personally of the press, radio and television
media that they report the progress of the challenge
7. DEVELOP A CAMPAIGN OF LETTER WRITING and FfTITIONS OF
SUPPORT TO THE CHALLENGE AND EELAYED SEATING RESOLUTION
TO CONGRESSMEN IN WASHINGTON; TO HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ,
ELECTIONS, AND TO SPEAKER McCORMACK
8. Distribute this fact sheet, SNCC pamphlet "Subversion
of the Right-to Vote", facts of challenge to friends in
other congressional districts.
9. Urge prominent community figures to support challenge,
publicize statements, and GO TO MISSISSIPPI TO OBSERVE
EVIDENCE TAKING
For further information, contact local SNCC group or Fay Stender,
2608 Milvia St., Berkeley'
Copies of actual notice with 30 pages of documentation may be
borrowed to show the congressmen.
Remember: Statutory notices detail laws and physical acts denying
Negroes the vote. 100,000 of Mississippi's 4-00,000 eligible voters
registered with MFDP. 28,000 Negroes were permitted to register
by the state of Mississippi.
Object Description
| Title | MFDP--General papers, 1963-1965, part 2 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 1, Segment 2, Part 2) |
| Author/Creator | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
| Folder Description | More documents from the MDFP and SNCC concerning the congressional challenge. They usually provide a history of MFDP and of its challenges as well as lobbying and fundraising instructions, timetables and procedures. There's a transcribed COFO press conference in which lawyers representing Mississippi African Americans excluded from elections discuss their intention to document that fact through depositions in order to bolster the MFDP's congressional challenge. Fannie Lou Hamer's official legal challenge to Congressman Jamie L. Whitten. Form letters updating MFDP supporters about the progress of the challenge, including the Democratic Party of Mississippi's injunction against the MFDP to stop using the word "Democratic" in their name. A "Support the Challenge" flyer advertising "three ladies against the system--the three Freedom Congresswomen from Mississippi." Memos to MFDP members about transportation for a couple of Washington, D.C., lobbying efforts, including lobbying schedules, and about an upcoming state MFDP convention. Martin Luther King's statement supporting the congressional challenge on the day charges were dismissed against 19 men accused of murdering the three missing civil rights workers. Harvard legal scholar Mark DeWolf Howe's and others' statements on the legal validity of the congressional challenge. Memos on the history of contested elections in the House of Representatives, including one on the Roush-Chambers precedent. Draft of an MFDP platform for the 1963 Freedom Vote. There are biographical sketches of MFDP candidates Victoria Gray, Aaron Henry, Annie Devine, and Fannie Lou Hamer. A document on the strong patronage connections between the national Democratic Party and state parties, with speculation about how MFDP congressional representatives, once seated, would fit into them. A printed MFDP pamphlet on the congressional challenge. A document on the voting records of the Mississippi congressmen being challenged by the MFDP. A document called "The Right to Register Versus the Right to Vote." Text of the Fairness Resolution to be introduced in the House by William Fitts Ryan. A list of the congressmen who voted against the MFDP's congressional challenge. There's William Higgs's "Brief Memorandum on Federal Civil Rights Authority." A legal document associated with a civil suit brought by African American congressional candidates against Democratic Party of Mississippi officials, charging them with racial discrimination and conspiracy, and asking (among other things) that voter registration for blacks be the same as for whites in Mississippi. A description of the MFDP plan to collect depositions on the obstacles to and consequences of African Americans' attempts to register to vote. A "Come to Washington [in August 1964] to Support the Challenge" flyer. A memo calls for a similar Washington D.C. campaign to be held in early January 1965, and there's also a schedule of planned events for that visit. A list of congressmen needing "special attention" from MFDP lobbyists since they voted against the challenge but who have over 20% African American constituents. A 1965 speech by Lawrence Guyot on the future of the MFDP. There's a detailed report on MFDP-related events in the House on January 5, 1965, with a breakdown by religion, party affiliation, and percentage of black constituents for the congressmen who voted against the MFDP. This is followed by the same vote in the Congressional Record and includes James Roosevelt's speech, "They Cannot Win 'Elections' from a System Built on Murder." Steve Max's familiar document on the MFDP's history, its Freedom Votes, its challenge to the Democratic National Convention, its challenge to the seating of white Mississippi congressmen, and finally the congressional defeat. Newspaper clippings on the decision range from the Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper saying, "[Democratic Party of Mississippi] Delegation Joyful at House Decision" to Drew Pearson's "Liberals Force a Roll Call" and the MFDP's "The Challenge Is Only Beginning." A letter from Lawrence Guyot continues the positive outlook, as he looks toward the next step which will occur on January 17, 1965. The newsletter of the Coahoma County NAACP reports on the local people who have been invited to attend Lyndon Johnson's inaugural festivities. And there's a press release about a subpoena for Governor Paul Johnson, Attorney General Joe Patterson, and the heads of the Mississippi Highway Patrol and the State Sovereignty Commission for depositions to be held at an African American church in Jackson. Newspaper clippings suggesting that some congressmen are reconsidering their vote regarding the congressional challenge. An MFDP update on the deposition-collecting process. A memo to congressional representatives stating that recent depositions have revealed that segregationist White Citizens' Councils in Mississippi have been receiving state funds. A flyer advertising Joseph Rauh's ("America's greatest political attorney") visit and speech to the Coahoma County branch of the NAACP. Press release from the University of Illinois Young Democrats Club on Victoria Gray's speech about the MFDP's congressional challenge. A memo to "all participating groups in the American civil rights movement" concerning proposed voting rights legislation in the 89th Congress. Statements by Lawrence Guyot, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, and James Forman call for unity on voting rights legislation. A SNCC press release outlines its 1965 plans. Editorial clippings from liberal Christian newspapers and magazines supporting the congressional challenge. Plans for an April 1965 conference in Washington, D. C., to support the challenge. A March 19, 1965, article by Drew Pearson about the MFDP depositions being collected in Mississippi. A New York committee supporting the MFDP urges people to lobby their representatives and provides a list of representatives' congressional challenge voting records. Victoria Gray's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on proposed voting rights legislation. Leroy Johnson, concerned that national voting rights legislative and civil rights activities in Alabama will divert attention away from the Mississippi congressional challenge, calls for a spring 1965 march in Jackson. An outline of the provisions of the injunction to Sunflower County, Mississippi, registrar Cecil Campbell, requiring him to treat black and white voter registrants the same for one year and laying out procedures to follow. Newspaper clippings on the use of federal registrars in certain Mississippi counties after passage of the Voting Rights Act, and on Senators Eastland and Stennis's power in the House and their opposition to War on Poverty programs. MFDP press releases on its Conference on Free Elections held in Washington, D. C., in April 1965; on the wave of African Americans registering to vote in Sunflower County after the registrar, Cecil Campbell, was enjoined to use the same voting requirements for blacks as for whites; on the scope and progress of deposition-collecting. A blank petition urging the unseating of the white Mississippi delegation. Lobbying instructions for the Conference on Free Elections. A pamphlet urging attendance at the Conference. Minutes from an MFDP 1st Congressional District workshop in Prairie, Mississippi, from April 24 and May 1, 1965. An article on the Young Democratic Clubs of Mississippi, a rival group to the MFDP. A large portion of Jack Minnis's spring 1965 article on the MFDP. An unattributed, undated "discussion draft" of a document called "The Movement vs. RFK" which suggests that RFK will become a presidential candidate and will try to break up the movement. An MFDP press release issued after a judge turned down Sunflower County's request for a delay in municipal elections in spring 1965. WATS line reports from October 1965. A flyer for a "Sing for Freedom" conference in May 1965 in Edwards, Mississippi. The folder concludes with an MFDP press release about the submission of the depositions to the House of Representatives. |
| State | Washington, D.C.; Mississippi; California; New Jersey; Illinois; Alabama; New York; North Carolina; Georgia; Tennessee; Louisiana; Arkansas; |
| Place | Canton; Madison County; Natchez; Adams County; Waveland; Maben; Meridian; Ruleville; Greenwood; Clarksdale; Holmes County; Winona; Tate County; Itta Bena; Batesville; Lexington; Greenville; Durant; Marks; Indianola; Glendora; Curtis; Tchula; Sunflower; Jackson; Vicksburg; McComb; Forrest County; Hattiesburg; Bolivar County; Humphreys County; Marshall County; Panola County; Coahoma County; Gulfport; Moss Point; Holly Springs; Laurel; Cleveland; Sunflower County; Prairie; West Point; Clay County; Sidon; Philadelphia; Victoria; Olive Branch; Carthage; Tribbett; Edwards; San Francisco; Atlantic City; Champaign; Selma; New York; Weldon; Newton; Somerville; Bogalusa; Forrest City; |
| Subject | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); volunteers; Freedom Vote; voter registration; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; arrest; murder; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); threats; intimidation; assault and battery; jail experiences; teachers; unemployment; civil rights workers; eviction; Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); United States. Department of Justice; United States. Department of Agriculture; agriculture; federal aid; sharecroppers; segregation; public welfare; lawyers; mass media; bombings; police brutality; cross burning; Democratic Party (Miss.); Ku Klux Klan; Congo; United States Commission on Civil Rights; Americans for Democratic Action; Congress of Racial Equality; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; American Civil Liberties Union; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United Nations; China; Cuba; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; War on Poverty; education; medicine; White Citizens councils; Association for the Preservation of the White Race; Republican Party (U.S.); United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; labor unions; wages; libraries; housing; communism; nuclear weapons testing; food relief; Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.); poverty; United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965; jury; courts; church buildings; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; poll tax; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.); literacy tests (election law); courthouses; Head Start programs; Southern Conference Educational Fund; Young Democratic Clubs of Mississippi; Mississippi Freedom Labor Union; Mississippi State Penitentiary; boycotts; cooperative societies; music; Freedom Singers |
| Personal Name | Stender, Fay; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; Colmer, William Meyers, 1890-1980; DeVine, Annie; Walker, Prentiss, 1917-1998; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Whitten, Jamie; Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903-1998; Williams, John Bell; Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995; Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964; Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964; Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964; Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012; Strickland, William, 1937-; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978; Lawrence, Tina; McKee, J. F.; Graham, Laura; Evans, Pearlie; Stavis, Morton; Stern, Edward; ; Greene, Alma; Henry, John; Carver, Ronald; Bridgeforth, Ron; Jones, James; Byrd, Frank; Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991; Diggs, Charles C.; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Turnbow, Hartman; Patterson, Joseph Turner; Robertson, Stokes V.; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Gartin, Carroll, 1913-1966; Ladner, Heber; Smith, Benjamin; Rosenthal, L. H.; Stone, I. F. (Isidor Feinstein), 1907-1989; Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995; Kinoy, Arthur; Del Pozzo, Theresa; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Howe, Mark De Wolfe, 1906-1967; Higgs, William L.; Ryan, William F., 1922-1972; McCormack, John W., 1891-1980; Thelwell, Michael; Lusky, Louis; Farmer, James, 1920-1999; Carthen, Sallie Mae; Sickles, Carlton; Lynch, John R.; Chalmers, J. R.; Houston, James Monroe; Cameron, John, Rev.; Gray, Anthony; Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995; Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore, 1877-1947; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Rooney, John J.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Winstead, Arthur; Miller, Arthur H.; Hartman, Louis Earl; Rogoff, Carol; Leiken, Samuel; Garvy, Helen; Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000; Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991; King, Edwin H.; Wallace, Ceola; Lanier, Robert; Robinson, Marion; Stokes, Susan Elesta; Williams, May; Clark, Rosebud; Adam, Bidwell, 1894-; Lewis, Walter, Mrs.; Clayton, Otis N.; Hood, G. H.; Waltzer, Bruce C.; Wulf, Melvin L.; Galler, Roberta; Springer, William; Mitchell, Francis; Max, Steve; Sillers, Walter; Middleton, W. G.; Chambers, George O.; Roush, J. Edward; Green, Edith, 1910-1987; Dabbs, Wallace; Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969; Lynd, Theron C.; Rauh, Joseph L., 1911-; Henry, Noelle Michael; Pigee, Vera Mae; Evers, Charles, 1922-; Johnson, Idessa; Birdsong, T. B.; Johnston, Erle; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Manesk, Hugh; Morphew, Richard; Hopkins, Andrew; Campbell, Hayden; Jones, Hercules A.; Peart, William; Coppenbarger, Bill; Minor, W. F.; Richmond, Eddie; Atkins, Mary; Shelby, Ollie B.; Sanderford, D. O.; Dubinsky, Ed; Ruffin, Susie; Goodman, Janice; Quirk, John; Sozen, Joyce; Lindsay, John V. (John Vliet); Resnick, Joseph Y. (Joseph Yale), 1924-1969; Phillips, Rubel L.; Gray, Kenneth (Kenneth James), 1924-; Schneider, Cathy; Kennedy, Ron; Gusfield, Joseph; Davis, Saville; Roberts, Ralph R.; Griffin, Charles H.; Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906-1980; Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965; Baker, Ella, 1903-1986; Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972; Rainey, Lawrence A.; Price, Cecil; Clark, James G.; Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981; Johnson, Leroy; Campbell, Cecil; Lewis, John; Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-2012; Dodd, Thomas; Conyers, John, 1929-; Edwards, Don; Edwards, Len; Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011; Johnson, Willie; Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren); Fauntroy, Walter E.; Ahmond, Mathew; Thomas, Arthur; McNichols, Steve; O'Dwyer, Paul; Blackwell, Unita, 1933-; Lane, Mary; King, Annie Mae; Hirst, Edgar; Brown, Otis; Lamb, Martha Turner; Durrough, Charles M.; Graves, Charles; ; Adams, Dora; Whitley, Clifton R.; Buffington, John; Cook, L. C.; Smith, Cora; Oden, Sallie; Coleman, Ike; Bernard, Joel; White, Don; Weadon, Augusta; Ashby, Lena; Lenoir, James; Dixon, Willie B.; Braden, Carl; Braden, Anne; Maurer, Joe; Palmer, Hazel T.; McNairy, Willie; Evans, Rowland, 1921-2001; Novak, Robert D.; Stevens, Carolyn; Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998; Frazier, John; Bailey, Shirley; Minnis, Jack; Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988; Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970; Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987; Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974; Moses, Robert Parris; Cox, Archibald, 1912-2004; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968; Newfield, Jack; Lowenstein, Allard K.; Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007; Galbraith, John; McCarthy, Eugene; McCarthy, Joseph; Clayton, Claude F. (Claude Feemster), 1909-1969; Fusco, Liz; Watkins, Bert; Ware, Bill; Lunden, Mark; Sampson, Richard; Ladner, Dorie; Lumbard, Posey; Easton, Louis; Bridgewater, Clarence; Williams, Eddie; Gibson, James; Horowitz, Charlie; Lapsansky, Phillip; Doar, John, 1921-; Robinson, J. T.; Higson, Mike; Sellers, Nettie; Carr, Sam; Hayes, Ralthus; Johnson, Allen; Wiley, Clinton; Aronson, Henry; Fox, Larry; Teiger, Buddy; Teiger, Ginny; Russell, Henry; Tillman, Annie; Campbell, George T.; Garman, Betty; Parry, James; Wright, Harry; Miller, Gracie; Miller, Hosey; Johnson, L. Warren; Kunney, Tee; Dail, Ellie; Israel, Mark; Halpern, Marty; Sullivan, Jean; Prescott, Martha; Butler, Barbara; Levine, Anita; Grogan, Nan; Hackett, C. T.; Dupries, Harry; Allen, Eunice; Newell, Bob; Gilbert, Walter; Morse, Joseph; Crowell, Catherine; ; ; House, Sam; Williams, Zelma; Louis, Jack; Lomax, Alan; Carawan, Guy; McGhee, Willie; |
| Event Date | 1964-1965; |
| Year | 1964-1965; |
| Language | English |
| Source | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788,Reel 1, Segment 2, Part 2; WIHV3937S-A |
| Format | memoranda; legal documents; correspondence; transcripts; flyers and handbills; press releases; clippings; reports and surveys; newsletters; forms; pamphlets; meeting minutes; |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2013 |
| Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | fsMFDPr1s2b000 |
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| Title | [p.1] |
| Page Text | SNCC GROUPS AND THEIR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS MUST, IN THE LAST THREE WEEKS IN DECEMBER DO THE FOLLOWING: 1. Disseminate to as wide an audience as possible the real issues 2. Create local interest which will influence Congressman to support FDP 3. Contact congressmen when they are home at Christmas and urge them: A. to support the challenge and the delayed seating fairness motion B. to co-author or vote for the delayed seating fairness resolution C. to request a roll-call vote on all issues concerning the contest Delegations are being organised by Friends of SNCC Groups- contact your local SNCC group or arrange your own delegation in other areas. Try to take a returned Mississippi volunteer on your visit. 4. Report to MFDP at 1353 U St, NW, Washington DC on the interviews. 5. Devise a form for publicizing whatever support your congressman may give and publicize the challenge in all your organizations and groups 6. Request personally of the press, radio and television media that they report the progress of the challenge 7. DEVELOP A CAMPAIGN OF LETTER WRITING and FfTITIONS OF SUPPORT TO THE CHALLENGE AND EELAYED SEATING RESOLUTION TO CONGRESSMEN IN WASHINGTON; TO HOUSE COMMITTEE ON , ELECTIONS, AND TO SPEAKER McCORMACK 8. Distribute this fact sheet, SNCC pamphlet "Subversion of the Right-to Vote", facts of challenge to friends in other congressional districts. 9. Urge prominent community figures to support challenge, publicize statements, and GO TO MISSISSIPPI TO OBSERVE EVIDENCE TAKING For further information, contact local SNCC group or Fay Stender, 2608 Milvia St., Berkeley' Copies of actual notice with 30 pages of documentation may be borrowed to show the congressmen. Remember: Statutory notices detail laws and physical acts denying Negroes the vote. 100,000 of Mississippi's 4-00,000 eligible voters registered with MFDP. 28,000 Negroes were permitted to register by the state of Mississippi. |
| Language | English |
| Source | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788,Reel 1, Segment 2, Part 2; |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2013 |
| Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
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| Digital Identifier | fsMFDPr1s2383 |