The goal of the Mississippi Summer Project was to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) , an integrated party , to win seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention for a slate of delegates elected by disfranchised black Mississippians and white sympathizers . The MFDP was , however , tremendously inconvenient for the Johnson Administration . It had wanted to minimize the inroads that Barry Goldwater 's campaign was making into what had previously been the Democratic stronghold of the " Solid South " and the support that George Wallace received during the Democratic primaries in the North
1964 Democratic National Convention
1964 Democratic National Convention
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee