Birmingham / Philadelphia / Atlantic City / Ruleville / /
Company
Clarion / PA Tribune / MFDP’s / Regroup / ABC News / Lisa Anderson Todd (forthcoming) Films / /
Country
United States / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / /
IndustryTerm
electricity / basic services / /
MedicalCondition
MS / /
Movie
Freedom on My Mind / /
Organization
Credentials Committee / High school / Democratic Party / Citizens’ Council / national political party / Federal Bureau of Investigation / Council of Federated Organizations / United States House of Representatives / White House / federal government / Mississippi Democratic Party / Tougaloo College / Mississippi Sovereignty Commission / Civil Rights Movement / /
Person
Martin Luther King / Malcolm Poindexter / Hollis Watkins / Pat Brown / Bayard Rustin / Lyndon B. Johnson / Emilye Crosby / Dorothy M. Zellner / Ed King / Betty G. Robinson / Charles Sherrod / Victoria Gray Adams / Virna Canson / Greg Adler / Annie Devine / James Forman / Fannie Lou Hamer / John Dittmer / Edith Green / Jenice View / John Scali / Bob Moses / Julian Hipkins III / William Simmons / Faith S. Holsaert / Charles M. Payne / Jean S. Young / Hubert Humphrey / Joseph Rauh Jr. / Lyndon Baines Johnson / Rachel Reinhard / Walter Mondale / Sarah Slichter / Mike Miller / Martha P. N. Noonan / Deborah Menkart / Martin Luther King Jr. / Elizabeth Boyd / Ollye Brown Shirley / Walter Reuther / Howard Zinn / Judy Richardson / Joseph Rauh / Lawrence Guyot / Sara Evers / Aaron Henry / Lisa Anderson Todd / Bruce Hartford / Falana McDaniel / /
PoliticalEvent
federal elections / /
Position
Union leader / Mayor / President / SNCC field secretary / historian / strong advocate / Teacher / King / Governor / chaplain / MFDP chair / MFDP vice-chair / Reporter / black NAACP state president / lieutenant governor / Negro leader / sheriff / delegate / /
Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party This lesson explores one of the most important events in the fight for true democracy in the U.S., when a coalition of grassroots activists