Transcripts for MSNBC Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power 20240604 03:02:00

- we're sitting there saying, we'll do the platform. we'll do the nominee. and still the democratic party would not allow for us to take those seats because lyndon johnson is afraid he's gonna lose all of those racist white democratic senators, democratic congress people. you know, because at that point, the racists hadn't gone into republican party. they were all democrats. they were southern democrats. there's a big meeting with martin luther king and a lot of the heads of the civil rights movement. some of them try and convince the mississippi freedom, democratic party delegates that they should go for what is called the compromise. two seats at large, not representing mississippi, but at large. so they won't be the official mississippi democratic delegation. and the mfdp delegates say, "no." you know, as miss hamer says, "we didn't go - come all this way for no two seats." you know, "when all of us are hurting." - and it is considered a massive betrayal,

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