After successful passage of the Civil Rights Act over a filibuster , Johnson contends for election against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election . This is complicated by the Freedom Summer movement and pulls between the northern liberal wing and conservative , Southern Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic Party . Johnson assigns J. Edgar Hoover to investigate the murders of Chaney , Goodman , and Schwerner in Mississippi . The state of Mississippi also sends two delegations to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City : the " normal " delegation from the Dixiecrat wing , which threatened to walk out on Johnson , and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party , a renegade wing supported by the Civil Rights Movement , but vehemently opposed by other Southerners . Johnson , in a bid to save the South , offers the MFDP a compromise that satisfies neither side ; the Mississippi delegation walks out , and the MFDP is unhappy with the two at-large delegates offered to them
Democratic National Convention
1964 Democratic National Convention
All the Way (film)