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                    <text>FREEDOM
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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Freedom Democratic Party

Convention Challenge

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party is the political
party for ill the people in
Mississippi--Negro and white-whoare registered on the Freedom Registration books.

We are going to send the people that were picked at our
district and state meetings to
the national democratic contion.

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party is running Preedom Candidates for Congress
and Senate.
Mrs. Fannie Lou namer (C)
Mr. James Houston (C)
Rev. John Cameron (C)
Mrs. Victoria Gray (S)
Why do we have the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party? Because the Mississippi Democratic Party ia only for a few
white people who have regr;:'
tered to vote under unfair voting laws.

Council

OJ
Federated
Organizations
supports

They're going to tell the people at the national meeting
that they know what the people of Mississippi want.

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They are going to say that the
people sent by the Mississippi
Democratic Party do !lil know
what the people of Mississippi
want.
We want the people from the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party to be the official group
from Mississippi at the national meeting.

The
Miasissippi
Democratic
Party runs people like:
Jamie Whitten
James Eastland
Paul Johnson
Rois Barnett
for important offices.
The people in Mississippi and
people all over the country
are tired of having people
like that represent Missi1sippi in the government.
So we have formed
in Mississippi.

a new party

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party is for all people
who want to be free.-

If you want to ask
call or write to:

questions

Mississippi
Freedom
Democratic
Party
Headquarters
1017 Lynch St.
Jackson
Mississippi
phone: 352-9605

MISSISSIPPI
FREEDOM
DEMOCRATIC
PARTY

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�Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention is
a very big meeting
in August.

We will have:
COUNTY MEETINGS

It is a very important meeting
because people in the Democratic Party choose
the person
they want to run for President
of the United States.

How

many?
There will be 82
county meetings-one in each
county in the state.
fill£.£.!.!!. come?
The people who
we picked
at the
precinct
meeting.
fillU ll!.l t h e y ~
They will
choose people
to go to the
district and state meetings

People in the Democratic Party
from all over the country come
together to talk.
Mississippi
sends a
group of
people to this
national meeting.
This
summer we are
going to
send
a Freedom group
to the
national meeting.
In order
to choose the people
that we want to go to
the National meeting we will have to
have
four
kinds
of meetings
here in Mississippi first.
We will have:
PRECINCT MEETINGS
~

many?
As many precinct
meetings as we can have-all
over the state.
Who can come?
Everyone who is
-registered on the Freedom
Registration books.
What will they do?
They will
choose people
to go to the
county meetings.

We will have:
DISTRICT MEETINGS

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state convention

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District Conventions

t

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County Conventions

many?
There will be five
district meetings--one
in
each district in the state.
fill.2. .un. come?
The people who
were picked
at the
county
meetings.
fillil ~ t h e y ~ They will
choose some people to go to
the national meeting.
We will haves
A STATE MEETING

lliu!_ many?

There will be
one
state meeting.
lli .£.!.!1 come? The same people
who went
to the
district
meetings.
What till t h e y ~
They will
all get together and choose
more people
to go
to the
national meeting.

Precinct Meetin~s

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