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Forced sterilization set Fannie Lou Hamer on path to the Mississippi Civil Rights movement. In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy without her consent or knowledge when she underwent ...
In Mississippi, African Americans were restricted from registering and voting by means of intimidation, harassment, terror, and complicated literacy tests. [2] They had been limited from participation in the political system since 1890 by passage that year of a new state constitution, and by the practices of the governing white Democrats in the decades since, with participation in the state ...
On October 6, 1963, a convention at the Masonic Temple in Jackson nominated Clarksdale, Mississippi, pharmacist and NAACP leader Aaron Henry for governor, and activist Edwin King for lieutenant governor. [6]: 73 [8] It was the first black-white integrated ticket for state leadership of Mississippi since Reconstruction era.
The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) was a coalition of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations operating in Mississippi. COFO was formed in 1961 to coordinate and unite voter registration and other civil rights activities in the state and oversee the distribution of funds from the Voter Education Project.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos via Getty/Public DomainIn Mississippi, the emphasis of the civil rights struggle had shifted from direct-action campaigns involving sit-ins and protest ...
Section 241 was adopted by a state constitutional convention with the racist intent to undermine the electoral power of Black people after they gained the right to vote following the 1861-1865 U.S ...
Ralph Edwin King Jr. (born September 20, 1936), better known as Ed King, is a United Methodist minister, civil rights activist, and retired educator.He was a key figure in historic civil rights events taking place in Mississippi, including the Jackson Woolworth’s sit-in of 1963 and the Freedom Summer project in 1964.
This allows the ACLU and the American Bar Association to represent Native Americans in cases that later win them additional civil rights. August – The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates challenge the seating of all-white Mississippi representatives at the Democratic national convention.