WASHINGTON (AP ... and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Kennedy is father to Robert F.

Much of the effort of the COFO Mississippi Summer Project has been focussed in recent weeks on aiding the attempt of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to unseat the regular ...

On August 6, 1964 the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party held a statewide convention to elect 68 delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention later that month. It was Mississippi's ...