Branch of Freedom Democratic party during 1960s Civil Rights Movement
"Freedom Democratic Party" redirects here. For the Liberty Democratic Party in Uzbekistan, see Erk Democratic Party.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party/Freedom Democratic Party
Chairperson
Lawrence Guyot[1]
Vice Chairperson
Fannie Lou Hamer
Founded
1964 (1964)
Dissolved
1968 (1968)
Split from
Mississippi Democratic Party
Merged into
Mississippi Democratic Party
Headquarters
Jackson, Mississippi
Ideology
Civil Rights Desegregation Liberalism Social liberalism Progressivism
Political position
Center-left
National affiliation
Democratic Party
Colors
Blue
Politics of Mississippi
Elections
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed in the state of Mississippi from 1964 to 1968, during the Civil Rights Movement. Created as the partisan political branch of the Freedom Democratic organization (a contemporary Civil Rights activist group aligned with the national United States Democratic Party), the party was organized by African Americans and White Americans sympathetic to the Civil Rights Movement from Mississippi to challenge the established power of the state Mississippi Democratic Party, which at the time opposed the Civil Rights Movement and allowed participation only by Whites, despite the fact that African Americans made up 40% of the state population.
^"MFDP Challenge to the Democratic Convention" (PDF). Civil Rights Movement History 1951-1968.
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