The project was essentially a statewide voter registration campaign , and the framers called for one thousand volunteers to assist in the undertaking . Activists made plans to conduct a parallel Democratic primary election , because the systematic exclusion of black voters resulted in all-white delegations to presidential primaries . These efforts culminated in the creation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party . Both the official delegation and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party went to the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City , New Jersey
1964 Democratic National Convention
1964 Democratic National Convention
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