Starting in 1961, Mississippi, becomes a testing ground of constitutional principles and of the human spirit as the Civil Rights Movement focuses its energies on the right to vote.
"Starting in 1961, Mississippi, becomes a testing ground of constitutional principles and of the human spirit as the Civil Rights Movement focuses its energies on the right to vote."@en
"Focuses on the continuing civil rights struggle in Mississippi. The story covers the voter registration drive during Freedom Summer in 1964 when students and others from the north came to Mississippi to implement black participation in the political process. Also includes the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and their unsuccessful attempt to sit in at the 1964 Democatic Party convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey."
"Covers the voting rights question in Mississippi, which became a testing ground of constitutional principles. Features the Voting Rights campaign with Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer; and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the Democratic Convention."
"Starting in 1961, Mississippi became a testing ground of constitutional principles and of the human spirit as the Civil Rights Movement focused its energies on the right to vote."@en
"Covers the voting rights question in Mississippi, which became a testing ground of constitutional principles."@en
"Focuses on the right to vote. Tells how the Black citizens who had been denied the right to vote stepped forward and demanded a place in the political process. Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and others, died trying to help them. Shows the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the 1964 Democratic Party Convention."
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