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Take a look at Mississippi in the early 1960s to understand why the focus of African American voter registration targeted that state. Read about the organization and implementation of the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964. See also the influence the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party had on the Democratic Party convention in 1964.
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civil rights activists, civil rights groups, literacy tests, andrew goodman, cofo, council of federated organizatons, democratic party convention, 1964, fannie lou hamer, freedom schools, james chaney, medgar evers, michael schwerner, mississippi freedom democratic party, mississippi summer project, robert moses
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