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FREEDOM PARTY REJECTS MISS. DELEGATION TRUCE BIG CLASH BREWS FOR DEMO MEET 24Friday, Aug. 21, 1964 EVENING OUTLOOK Freedom Party Rejects Miss. Delegation Truce Big Clash Brews For Demo Meet Compile- From Wire Services ATLANTIC CITY (UPI) — Three busloads of Mississippi integrationists rolled into town today with a warning that a failure to seat them at the 35th Democratic National Convention would cost the party thousands upon thousands of Negro votes in November. The largely Negro group, representing the newly formed Mississippi Freedom Democratic party, flatly rejected a proposed settlement of their crer dentials fight with the state's a}l-white regular party delegation. 'Won't Compromise' Aaron Henry, chairman of the Freedom party, said his group would not accept a compromise said to have White House approval because any compromise with the regulars would be "evil." Henry, a Clarksdale, Miss., druggist, said that "Negroes all over this country — and whites, too, who are concerned with freedom—will be watching Atlantic City." Meanwhile, Democratic plat? form writers trying to avoid a party-rending fight over civil rights wrestled with a probleip; of wording today. " How far could a Democratic national platform go in trusting state and local officials to carry out the federal civil rights law? The problem of wording was before the platform committee Which moved its operations Thursday . to Atlantic City, where the Democratic National Convention opens Monday. Gov. Carl Sanders of Georgia roused/ the committee to aps plauding enthusiasm Thursday with a plej*; ftgstftjtgivil right? plank pledging the party to sup^ port "the law of the land-" ■WUft
Object Description
Title | Freedom Information Service--Clippings, August 1964 (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 515, Box 1, Folder 1) |
Author/Creator | Freedom Information Service |
Folder Description | This small folder contains newspaper clippings from around the country relating to MFDP's challenge to the seating of the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party's delegates at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. |
State | Mississippi; New Jersey; Louisiana; Alabama; California |
Place | Jackson; Atlantic City |
Subject | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Democratic Party (Miss.); Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Congress of Racial Equality |
Personal Name | Henry, Aaron; Sanders, Carl; Kraslow, David; McKeithen, John; Johnson, Lyndon; Rauh, Joseph L., Jr.; Goldwater, Barry; Callon, Ben C.; Cortright, G. C.; Johnson, Paul B.; Adams, Bidwell; Bailey, John; Robertson, Stokes, Jr.; Patterson, Joe T.; Forman, James; Farmer, James; Smith, Louis; Kennedy, John F.; Byrd, Harry F.; Hamer, Fannie Lou; King, Edwin; Ailes, Stephen; Humphrey, Hubert H.; Hall, Pinky; Johnston, Olin D.; Stevenson, Adlai; Sparkman, John J.; Hill, Lister; Wallace, George C.; Connor, Eugene (“Bull”); Morse, Wayne; Brown, Edmund (“Pat”); Salinger, Pierre; Connally, John B.; Nelson, Gaylord; Breathitt, Edward T.; Welsh, Matthew E.; Unruh, Jesse M.; Cranston, Allan; Kerner, Otto; Jones, Faye; Sellers, Cleveland; Farrar, Winifred; Bronstein, Yetta; Schwartz, D. X. B.; Reuther, Walter; McCarthy, Eugene; Mansfield, Mike; Knowland, William F.; Nixon, Richard; Reedy, George; Rudnick, Mona Jill; Leventhal, Harold; McCormack, John; Lawrence, David L.; Mondale, Walter; Moyers, Bill D.; Donovan, Robert J.; Ullman, Al; Green, Edith; Wynn, Doug; Berger, Fred; Halladay, Randy; Tumplinson, William D.; Moss, R. L.; |
Event Date | 1964; |
Year | 1964; |
Language | English |
Source | Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 515, Box 1, Folder 1; WIHVF1250-A |
Format | clippings; |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2012 |
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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Page Text | FREEDOM PARTY REJECTS MISS. DELEGATION TRUCE BIG CLASH BREWS FOR DEMO MEET 24Friday, Aug. 21, 1964 EVENING OUTLOOK Freedom Party Rejects Miss. Delegation Truce Big Clash Brews For Demo Meet Compile- From Wire Services ATLANTIC CITY (UPI) — Three busloads of Mississippi integrationists rolled into town today with a warning that a failure to seat them at the 35th Democratic National Convention would cost the party thousands upon thousands of Negro votes in November. The largely Negro group, representing the newly formed Mississippi Freedom Democratic party, flatly rejected a proposed settlement of their crer dentials fight with the state's a}l-white regular party delegation. 'Won't Compromise' Aaron Henry, chairman of the Freedom party, said his group would not accept a compromise said to have White House approval because any compromise with the regulars would be "evil." Henry, a Clarksdale, Miss., druggist, said that "Negroes all over this country — and whites, too, who are concerned with freedom—will be watching Atlantic City." Meanwhile, Democratic plat? form writers trying to avoid a party-rending fight over civil rights wrestled with a probleip; of wording today. " How far could a Democratic national platform go in trusting state and local officials to carry out the federal civil rights law? The problem of wording was before the platform committee Which moved its operations Thursday . to Atlantic City, where the Democratic National Convention opens Monday. Gov. Carl Sanders of Georgia roused/ the committee to aps plauding enthusiasm Thursday with a plej*; ftgstftjtgivil right? plank pledging the party to sup^ port "the law of the land-" ■WUft |
Language | English |
Source | Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 515, Box 1, Folder 1; |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2012 |
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 | FSFISB1F1001 |