The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 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
MFDP flyer
Aaron Henry reading from a document while seated before the credentials committee
Fannie Lou Hamer, mid-speech to the credentials committee
Aaron Henry (politician)
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Aaron Henry was an American civil rights leader, politician, and head of the Mississippi branch of the NAACP. He was one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which tried to sea
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
…ability to effect change on the national level. They elected Fannie Lou Hamer, E.W. Steptoe, Winson Hudson, Hazel Palmer, Victoria Gray, Rev. Ed King, Aaron Henry and Annie Devine as electors from the state to the national convention. The day after the state convention, James Chaney was buried in his hometown of…
Freedom Vote broadside, 1963
Button from Henry's time in the Mississippi State Legislature.