When the forces of white supremacy continued to block black voter registration, the Summer Project switched to building the MFDP.

After it proved to be impossible to register black voters against the opposition of state officials, Freedom Summer volunteers switched to building the MFDP using a simple, alternate, process of signing up party supporters that did not require blacks to openly defy whites by trying to register at the courthouse or take a complex and unfair literacy test.

At the national convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey the MFDP claimed the seats for delegates for Mississippi, not on the grounds of the Party rules, but because the official Mississippi delegation had been elected by a primary conducted under Jim Crow laws in which blacks were excluded because of poll taxes, literacy tests, and even violence against black voters.

The national Party's liberal leaders supported a compromise in which the white delegation and the MFDP would have an even division of the seats ; Johnson was concerned that, while the regular Democrats of Mississippi would probably vote for Goldwater anyway, if the Democratic Party rejected the regular Democrats, he would lose the Democratic Party political structure that he needed to win in the South.

As MFDP Vice Chair Fannie Lou Hamer said, " We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we'd gotten here.

Forrest County was also a center of activity for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) which sent a slate of delegates to the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City to challenge the seating of the all-white, pro-segregation delegates elected by the regular party in primaries in which African Americans could not participate.

Victoria Jackson Gray of Palmers Crossing ran on the MFDP ticket against incumbent Senator John Stennis and John Cameron of Hattiesburg ran for Representative in the 5th District.

The MFDP hoped to replace the regulars as the officially-recognized Democratic Party organization in Mississippi by winning the Mississippi seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention for a slate of delegates elected by disenfranchised black Mississippians and white sympathizers.

In the face of unrelenting violence and economic retaliation, the MFDP held local caucuses, county assemblies, and a state-wide convention ( as prescribed by Democratic Party rules ) to elect 68 delegates ( including 4 whites ) to the 1964 Democratic National Convention scheduled for Atlantic City, New Jersey in August.

The Credentials Committee televised its proceedings, which allowed the nation to see and hear the testimony of the MFDP delegates, particularly the testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer, who gave a moving and evocative portrayal of her hard brutalized life as a sharecropper on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta and the retaliation inflicted on her for trying to register to vote.

As Edwin King, who ran for Lieutenant Governor on the MFDP ticket, stated, “ Our assumption was that the parents of the Freedom School children, when we met them at night, that the Freedom Democratic Party would be the PTA .”

They suggested a compromise which would give the MFDP two non-voting seats in exchange for other concessions, and secured the endorsement of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for the plan.

Future negotiations were conducted without Hamer, and the compromise was modified such that the Convention would select the two delegates to be seated, for fear the MFDP would appoint Hamer.

At the national convention the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) claimed the seats for delegates for Mississippi, on the grounds that the official Mississippi delegation had been elected in violation of the party's rules because blacks had been systematically excluded from voting in the primaries, and participating in the precinct and county caucuses and the state convention ; whereas the MFDP delegates had all been elected in strict compliance with party rules.

The 1964 Democratic Party convention disillusioned many within the MFDP.

Eventually, the MFDP merged into the regular party and many MFDP activists became party leaders.

Though the MFDP challenge had wide support among many convention delegates, Lyndon B. Johnson feared losing Southern support in the coming campaign and he prevented the MFDP from replacing the regulars.

The MFDP delegation was not seated, but their influence on the Democratic Party helped to elect many black leaders in Mississippi and forced a rule change to allow women and minorities to sit as delegates at the Democratic National Convention.

In mid-1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) was organized with the purpose of challenging Mississippi's all-white and anti-civil rights delegation to the Democratic National Convention of that year as not representative of all Mississippians.

Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and black civil rights leaders ( including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, and Bayard Rustin ) worked out a compromise with MFDP leaders: the MFDP would receive two non-voting seats on the floor of the Convention ; the regular Mississippi delegation would be required to pledge to support the party ticket ; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll.

With participation in the regular Mississippi Democratic Party blocked by segregationists, COFO established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) as a non-exclusionary rival to the regular party organization with the intention of having the MFDP recognized by the national Democratic Party as the legitimate party organization in Mississippi.

Hamer was invited, along with the rest of the MFDP officers, to address the Convention's Credentials Committee.

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) was an American political party created in the state of Mississippi in 1964, during the civil rights movement.

Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and the black civil rights leaders including Roy Wilkins and Bayard Rustin worked out a compromise: two of the 68 MFDP delegates chosen by Johnson would be made at-large delegates and the remainder would be non-voting guests of the convention ; the regular Mississippi delegation was required to pledge to support the party ticket ; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll.

This involved the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ).

With participation in the regular Mississippi Democratic Party blocked by segregationists, COFO built on the success of the Freedom Ballot by formally establishing the MFDP in April 1964 as a non-discriminatory, non-exclusionary rival to the regular party organization.

MFDP leader and Mississippi NAACP President Aaron Henry stated:

When all but three of the " regular " Mississippi delegates left because they refused to support Johnson against Goldwater, the MFDP delegates borrowed passes from sympathetic northern delegates and took the seats vacated by the Mississippi delegates, only to be removed by the national Party.

Though the MFDP failed to unseat the regulars at the convention, they did succeed in dramatizing the violence and injustice by which the white power structure governed Mississippi and disenfranchised black citizens.

" The failure of the compromise effort allowed the rest of the Democratic Party to conclude that the MFDP was simply being unreasonable, and they lost a great deal of their liberal support.

Building the MFDP was a major thrust of the Freedom Summer project.

The MFDP sent its elected delegates by bus to the convention.

They therefore asked that the MFDP delegates be seated rather than the segregationist regulars.

The MFDP delegates lobbied and argued their case, and large groups of supporters and volunteers established an around-the-clock picket line on the Boardwalk just outside the convention, which garnered considerable publicity.

After that, most knowledgeable observers thought the majority of the delegates were ready to unseat the regulars and seat the MFDP delegates in their place.

To ensure his victory in November, Johnson maneuvered to prevent the MFDP from replacing the regulars.

With the help of Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Party leader Walter Mondale, Johnson engineered a " compromise " in which the national Democratic Party offered the MFDP two at-large seats, which allowed them to watch the floor proceedings but not take part.

The MFDP refused this " compromise ," which permitted the undemocratic, white-only, regulars to keep their seats and denied votes to the MFDP.

Even though they were denied official recognition, the MFDP kept up their agitation within the Convention.

It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

While Williams continued to dominate F1 in 1993, Patrese found it difficult to live with his new team-mate Michael Schumacher and before the end of the season Benetton informed Patrese that he was " free to seek an alternate drive ".

Some celebrities have become so associated with their eyeglasses that they continued to wear them even after taking alternate measures against vision problems: United States Senator Barry Goldwater and comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after being fitted for contacts and getting laser eye surgery, respectively.

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Cincinnati fans not interested in the hype continued to call the facility " League Park ", hence the alternate historical name, " League Park III ".

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Eric Idle recorded alternate lyrics for the radio version, with the swearing censored, and the comments about the end of the film replaced with references to the end of the record, and continued rants about old people.

Chicago continued to be distributed as a standard component of the system, and Apple even urged developers to keep designing user interfaces for the Chicago typeface, since the new alternate fonts used the Chicago metrics as a foundation.

Afterwards, both sides continued to bombard each other with shells containing propaganda leaflets on alternate days of the week.

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The name of the poorly understood Jin state continued to be used in the name of the Jinhan confederacy and in the name " Byeonjin ," an alternate term for Byeonhan.

Later, an alternate ending which subtly pandered to pro-Nazi ideals enabled continued screening in German cinemas, but eventually even this version of the film was banned as ' decadent ' by the Nazi regime, which reportedly attempted to burn all of the existing prints, but by then several had been dispersed around the world.

Some were mollified by an exhaustive study commissioned by Penn to find alternate uses for the buildings and demolition continued.

Serge Poltoratzky's literary legacy was continued by his daughter Frances Hermione de Poltoratzky ( alternate spellings: Poltoratskaia or Poltoratskaya ), 1850-1916.