Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964

Delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sit outside of a hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey waiting for rooms. Caption on photo reads: (AC14) ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 21 -- THEY HOPE TO WIN SEATS AT CONVENTION -- Delegates from the Democratic Freedom party sit on luggage on the sidewalk outside their Atlantic City hotel waiting for rooms today shortly after their arrival at the site of the Democratic national convention. They claim the right to represent Mississippi at the convention, to the exclusion of the regular all-white Democratic delegation from that state. White girls are not delegation members.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection