History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1985 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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The idea
That summer Ella Baker, Robert Parris Moses and Fannie Lou Hamer organised the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as an alternative to the all-White state Democratic Party.
In practice
The party's delegates at the Democratic National Convention of nineteen sixty-four.
Where people slip
The convention's organisers seated only two of its delegates, as nonvoting observers, the anchor records.
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