07 Political Realignment: Racial Politics in the Democratic Party during the 1960s

In this episode of Visions of Democracy, we explore efforts to realign the Democratic Party. In the early 1960s, members of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee wanted to build a new alliance under the Democratic Party. Their goal was to expel Southern Democrats, economically-liberal politicians who supported Jim Crow, and bring in Progressive Republicans. Transcript available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19SMuOfQhsmvsVGYhXOsIIWn4TsWslsSc?usp=sharing Credits: Music- Wanna Go by INOSSI | @inossi Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Image- Photo by Joakim Honkasalo on Unsplash Interested in learning more? Check out these resources: https://snccdigital.org/events/mfdp-challenge-at-democratic-national-convention/ https://thetreeofprotest.com/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mfdp-convention/ Or read these books: Lisa Anderson Todd, For a Voice and the Vote: My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2015). Earnest N. Bracey, Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2011).