(CIVIL RIGHTS.) To Get That Power. [8] pages, 8¼ x 5¼ inches, staple-bound; toning to outer pages, address crossed out and replaced with inked stamp of the National Committee for Free Elections in Mississippi, with their New York address. New York: Mississippians United To Elect Negro Candidates, [1967]
Just three years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi had already made substantial progress toward democracy. This pamphlet traces the recent battles for voting rights and promotes the 1967 election push, with illustrated profiles of 8 Black candidates for the state legislature and other offices. Most notable is Fannie Lou Hamer, running for state senator for Sunflower County; she is here described as "probably the most renowned civil rights leader in Mississippi. . . . She was brutally beaten in Winona, Mississippi in 1963 during voter registration work." None traced at auction.
