For a Voice and the Vote: My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

by Lisa Anderson Todd

Book Overview

During the summer of 1964, more than a thousand individuals descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vote. Student organizers, volunteers, and community members canvassed black neighborhoods to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), a group that sought to give a voice to black Mississippians and demonstrate their will to vote in the face of terror and intimidation. In For a Voice and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813147158
• ISBN13: 9780813147154
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up