On this day in 1965 ...Middle East

Jan. 4, 1965 The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the 1964 congressional election results because Black Mississippians were prevented from voting. Credit: Courtesy of Wisconsin Historical Society Five busloads of Black Mississippians arrived at the U.S. Capitol to challenge the seating of Mississippi’s all-white congressional delegation. Those in charge in Washington initially had little sympathy because the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party had rejected the compromise at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, said SNCC leader Michael Thelwell. “We were absolutely persona non grata and the pariahs of beltway politics,” he said. But their cause soon

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