Since their deaths, dozens of movies and television series have been made glamorizing the lives and deaths of Bonnie and Clyde. This is the true story.
They called it "a campaign that may have no parallel since the days of Reconstruction." In 1964, more than 700 civil rights workers focused their efforts on Mississippi.
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.
