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 ...
During his awarding, Denzel Washington embraced Biden with a hug after the president placed the Medal of Freedom ... Mississippi but nationwide, and was beaten and had confronted the ’64 ...
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.