Werner--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Congressional Challenge (Hank Werner papers; Z: Accessions, M71-358, Box 2, Folder 14)

This folder is primarily devoted to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and its Congressional Challenge. It opens with the familiar COFO pamphlet on the MFDP. The folder also includes the following: a press release about the MFDP's (lack of a) position on the War in Vietnam. Joseph Meissner and Steven R. Nelson's 1965 questions and answers about the Mississippi Congressional Challenge. Part of the September 17, 1965, Congressional Record on Congress's dismissal of the Congressional Challenge. Lawrence Guyot's letter to MFDP supporters on the disappointing Congressional Challenge results. The MFDP's passionate October 1965 statement before the Democratic Party's Equal Rights Committee, castigating the Democratic Party of Mississippi for its lack of loyalty to the national Democratic Party, while detailing the MFDP's history and loyalty. There is a late October 1965 MFDP report to its supporters, documenting continuing discrimination by county registrars, jailing of protesters, re