In this episode of Visions of Democracy, we explore efforts to realign the Democratic Party. In the early 1960s, members of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee wanted to build a new alliance under the Democratic Party. Their goal was to expel Southern Democrats, economically-liberal politicians who supported Jim Crow, and bring in Progressive Republicans.

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Interested in learning more? Check out these resources:
https://snccdigital.org/events/mfdp-challenge-at-democratic-national-convention/
https://thetreeofprotest.com/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mfdp-convention/

Or read these books:
Lisa Anderson Todd, For a Voice and the Vote: My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2015).
Earnest N. Bracey, Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2011).

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