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-"
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