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Mississippi Goddam1

Date: May 30, 2003 | 28 Rabi al-Awwal 1424 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: civilrights, commentary, racism, history
In my Civil Rights Law class we've spent the last week watching the documentary film Freedom on My Mind about the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

I learned a lot from this film. I had heard of "Freedom Summer" but it turns out that I didn't know very much about it at all. I thought it was just about registering blacks to vote (I wonder what Cal Thomas would have said about that if he had been writing then2).

But there was a lot more going on. The movie was primarily about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (see also Mississippi and Freedom Summer). After being shut out of the official Mississippi Democratic party, blacks formed the MFDP and they sent delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City as a rival for the official, Dixiecrat, delegates. They attempted to convince the Democratic Party's credentials committee that the official delegation was illegimate because it excluded blacks. President Lyndon Johnson feared that if he recognized the MFDP, all the Southern white Democrats would desert the party. So he played some hardball politics and got the MFDP shut out.

It's astonishing to look back at what things were like only 40 years ago right here in the U.S. In many ways, Mississippi might as well have been South Africa.

I'm glad I watched this film. I wish I had known about this before.

1 The title of this entry is taken from the song Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone, which was written in 1963 about the situation and the events that led up to Freedom Summer, specifically the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers

2 Just to stick it to Cal Thomas, here's a link to CAIR's voter registration drive. Muslims who are confused, see this.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 08:21 PM

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one of the top five commentors on this blog! LauraJ said: Total comments: 17   gold star

Ha! Cal Thomas would no doubt be writing the same old reactionary crap he's been dishing out for years...

Al-M, I hope you don't mind the external link. I've got an mp3 of "Missisippi Goddam" here , for those who would like to listen.

~ Posted at May 31, 2003 01:43 AM | Comment Permalink
moderator Al-Munaqabah said: Total comments: 996   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

Ooh, I was hoping to find an MP3 of that but I was too tired to look for one last night. Thanks!

Cal Thomas can take his attitude and put it where the sun don't shine. I've got the vote and I intend to use it wink

~ Posted at May 31, 2003 09:01 AM | Comment Permalink
one of the top five commentors on this blog! PG said: Total comments: 64   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

Nina Simone, RIP -- though I doubt that she will.

I took a class with Julian Bond at UVa, History of the Civil Rights Movement, that was a little disjointed as history but very interesting. Bond marched with MLK and was the first African American elected to the GA state legislature since Reconstruction, but not allowed to take his seat.



~ Posted at June 1, 2003 12:43 PM | Comment Permalink

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