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Freedom Demo Party.. (Continued from page 1) paused, just as the huge Greenwood crowds had done earlier and the jam- packed Masonic Temple crowd had done the night before in Jackson. There were many uniformed and plain-clothed policemen pressing close to insure his safety. The King had finally come to darkest America to be among the people. He recalled his mournful visit a little more than a year ago to pay his respects to the late CR leader, Medgar Evers, whose murderer or murderers have yet to be punished. An overflowing crowd of about three thousand who had braved an electric storm, sparotic showers and threatening heavy rain, waited over three hours to hear the dynamic leader at the Masonic Temple Wednesday night. Dr. Martin Luther's counterpart in Mississippi and founder of the Free-. dom Democratic Party, Bob Moses told the crowd that the Freedom Democratic Pa'rty grew out of tlvg_Negro's need for some place to turn politically in a state where both National parties excluded him. Mrs. Donna Moses foT- lowed her illustrious husband and told the people that "every citizen, has a right to choose his leader." Whether he had been enabled to learn to read and write did not really, matter. Citizenship should be the only yard stick for measuring the right to vote. "Nobody has aright to select your leaders," she said, "only you have that right." Then the Rev. Ralph Avernathy of Montgomery, Alabama told the roaring crowd that "God's children left Egypt for the promist land, but WE AIN'T GOING NO WHERE! They say send us back to Africa, but how the hell can we go back to where we ain't never been! Until the white man goes back where he came from and let the Indians have their country back, WE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE!" As Dr. King began to speak, the hushed audience seemed to hang to every word. "I hate to call a senator a liar, but the senator from Mississippi didn't tell the truth when he said the Freedom Movement is communist inspired", King said. "We are here because we are tired of humlliuLiuti and we will tgSgfl il LSOiaagM U« are to be free, we must desegregate our minds. The tragedy of segrega- tion is what it has done to • the NejJfo, nut just physically, out psychological- ly", he said. Some Negroes are sitting back letting others carry the ball for them, but when freedom comes, they will be the first to jump out front, hollering, "Look at what WE did", King told the crowd. If you want to be free, you must be willing to go to jail and to suffer physical harm. Whenever a man refuses to stand up for his rights, he is dead, regardless of how much longer he continues to breathe. He told his anxious listeners that they must remain non-violent hate is never the way, for hate is too great a burden to bear. The present rate of vo- tor registration in Mississippi would required 135 years to register half of those presently eligible to register. Dr. King told his listeners that they must become registered with the Freedom Democratic Party. It provides the best way to break down the barriers to official registration of voters.
Object Description
Title | MFDP--Clippings, 1964-1970 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 5) |
Author/Creator | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
Folder Description | This folder of newspaper clippings follows the MFDP from its plans to challenge the seating of five white Mississippi congressmen at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, through the Credentials Committee fight, to the effort to collect depositions showing that Mississippi African Americans had been systematically prevented from registering to vote through terror and economic intimidation, to the stalling of the MFDP's brief by U.S. Clerk of Court Ralph R. Roberts and the arrest and jailing of several Mississippians who came to Washington, D.C., to inquire about its progress, to a much-quoted statement by an MFDP worker that Mississippi blacks had no stake in the Vietnam War, and then to the defeat of the congressional challenge and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In later events, a Republican challenger to Senator Eastland--Prentiss Walker--takes a position even further to the right than Eastland. The 1966 Mississippi state legislature considers paying other states to take Mississippi African Americans, alleging that they are "more users than producers" and it passes laws designed to make it more difficult for candidates to run for office and gerrymanders the overwhelmingly black Delta area in hopes of reducing the power of black voters. A number of articles address legal challenges to the new law, attempts by blacks to enter and win elections, and splits between the MFDP and the Young Democrats. A draft letter by Leslie McLemore resigning a teaching position is also here. |
State | New Jersey; New York; Mississippi; Alabama; Wisconsin; Minnesota; California; Oregon; |
Place | Atlantic City; New York; Clarksdale; Coahoma County; Jackson; Ruleville; Forrest County; Greenwood; Holmes County; Leflore County; Harrison County; Tallahatchie County; McComb; Washington County; Greenville; Hattiesburg; Sunflower County; Greenville; Issaquena County; Mayersville; Jackson County; Jefferson County; Claiborne County; Winona; Marshall County; Holmes County; Amite County; Hinds County; Sunflower; Moorhead; Drew; Doddsville; Lowndes County; |
Subject | Americans for Democratic Action; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Democratic Party (Miss.); Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Congress of Racial Equality; Democratic Party (U.S.); Republican Party (Miss.); voter registration; John Birch Society; segregation; murder; intimidation; arrest; jail experiences; sharecroppers; eviction; United States Commission on Civil Rights; unemployment; civil rights workers; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; American Nazi Party; lawyers; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; communism; Southern Conference Educational Fund; National Lawyers Guild; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; Ku Klux Klan; White Citizens councils; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States. Department of Justice; arson; church buildings; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; War on Poverty; United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965; Young Democratic Clubs of Mississippi; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; labor unions; freedom schools; police brutality; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.); migration, internal; agriculture; poverty; unemployment; Head Start programs; boycotts; University of Mississippi; Americans for Preservation of the White Race; threats; assault and battery; education; Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.); poll tax; Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); |
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Event Date | 1964-1968; |
Year | 1964-1968; |
Language | English |
Source | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 5; WIHV3937S-A |
Format | clippings; correspondence; |
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 | fsMFDPr2s5000 |
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Title | [p.2] |
Page Text | Freedom Demo Party.. (Continued from page 1) paused, just as the huge Greenwood crowds had done earlier and the jam- packed Masonic Temple crowd had done the night before in Jackson. There were many uniformed and plain-clothed policemen pressing close to insure his safety. The King had finally come to darkest America to be among the people. He recalled his mournful visit a little more than a year ago to pay his respects to the late CR leader, Medgar Evers, whose murderer or murderers have yet to be punished. An overflowing crowd of about three thousand who had braved an electric storm, sparotic showers and threatening heavy rain, waited over three hours to hear the dynamic leader at the Masonic Temple Wednesday night. Dr. Martin Luther's counterpart in Mississippi and founder of the Free-. dom Democratic Party, Bob Moses told the crowd that the Freedom Democratic Pa'rty grew out of tlvg_Negro's need for some place to turn politically in a state where both National parties excluded him. Mrs. Donna Moses foT- lowed her illustrious husband and told the people that "every citizen, has a right to choose his leader." Whether he had been enabled to learn to read and write did not really, matter. Citizenship should be the only yard stick for measuring the right to vote. "Nobody has aright to select your leaders" she said, "only you have that right." Then the Rev. Ralph Avernathy of Montgomery, Alabama told the roaring crowd that "God's children left Egypt for the promist land, but WE AIN'T GOING NO WHERE! They say send us back to Africa, but how the hell can we go back to where we ain't never been! Until the white man goes back where he came from and let the Indians have their country back, WE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE!" As Dr. King began to speak, the hushed audience seemed to hang to every word. "I hate to call a senator a liar, but the senator from Mississippi didn't tell the truth when he said the Freedom Movement is communist inspired", King said. "We are here because we are tired of humlliuLiuti and we will tgSgfl il LSOiaagM U« are to be free, we must desegregate our minds. The tragedy of segrega- tion is what it has done to • the NejJfo, nut just physically, out psychological- ly", he said. Some Negroes are sitting back letting others carry the ball for them, but when freedom comes, they will be the first to jump out front, hollering, "Look at what WE did", King told the crowd. If you want to be free, you must be willing to go to jail and to suffer physical harm. Whenever a man refuses to stand up for his rights, he is dead, regardless of how much longer he continues to breathe. He told his anxious listeners that they must remain non-violent hate is never the way, for hate is too great a burden to bear. The present rate of vo- tor registration in Mississippi would required 135 years to register half of those presently eligible to register. Dr. King told his listeners that they must become registered with the Freedom Democratic Party. It provides the best way to break down the barriers to official registration of voters. |
Language | English |
Source | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 5; |
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 | JPEG2000 |
Digital Identifier | Micro 788 - Reel 2 00909 |