The project culminated when the Freedom Democrats sent a delegation to the Democratic Party’s national convention in Atlantic City to challenge the seating of Mississippi’s regular party delegation. The challenge failed.
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“1964 was an important year for SNCC. The group organized the large-scale Freedom Summer project, which brought almost one thousand volunteers to Mississippi to participate in Freedom Schools, voter registration efforts, and to help build the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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The Democratic Party’s failure to seat the MFDP delegation left many SNCC organizers bitter with the betrayal. Their attempt to play by the rules of democracy was met with public rebuttal by national political leaders and even leaders within the Movement.
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Consequently, many SNCC workers lost interest in working within the Democratic Party establishment. Meanwhile, factions had begun to develop and have greater impact on the organization...
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... although Cleveland Sellers pointed out, ‘there were always struggles around philosophy, around direction, around tactics, around strategy, continuously. It was a growth process.’”
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