What Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about activism today

Kristi Sanford @ Common Dreams - In 1964, civil rights organizers launched the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, signing up tens of thousands of members in an effort to be seated—in place of the official, segregationist state party—at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. The official Mississippi Democratic Party routinely slated candidates in shady back room deals, and had announced it would support Republican Barry Goldwater for president, rather than the party’s own candidate, Lyndon Baines Johnson, whom its leaders believed was a threat to segregation.  Read more.