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

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• African American women in politics
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• Democratic Party of the State of Mississippi
• Fannie Lou Hamer
• Freedom Summer
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• Unita Blackwell
• Council of Federated Organizations
• Hollis Watkins
• Politics of the United States
• United States
• Mississippi