Delegates to the Republican National Convention stage a huge demonstration ... He has written of the 1964 conventions, Republican and Democratic, as transitional—managed by politicians who ...

In mid-1964, passage of civil rights legislation ... Haynes Johnson, who has written 14 books, covered the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the Washington Star.

“The Democratic National Convention is a chance to ... rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer’s historic speech at the 1964 ...

The civil rights movement exploded onto the American political scene during the 1964 Democratic National Convention. In a speech at Ted Mann Concert Hall on Friday, former U.S. vice president and ...

On August 6, 1964 the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party held a statewide convention to elect 68 delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention later that month. It was Mississippi's ...

THe LBJ Tapes: President Johnson’s August 1964 calls, including the Democratic National Convention.

The 2008 Democratic National Convention is being held later ... Democrats have held a state-by-state roll call vote at every convention since 1964 when Lyndon Johnson was approved by acclamation.

In August 1964, less than a year after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, delegates to the Democratic National Convention gathered to nominate the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.

In 1964, over 700 volunteers from across ... OH to canvassing the towns of Mississippi to campaigning at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, NJ.