Did you know?
Before she ever ran for office, Victoria Gray Adams was organizing on the ground with SNCC in Hattiesburg, Mississippi — registering voters and teaching citizenship classes at a time when that work could get you killed.
In 1964, she ran for US Senate. She lost. But the campaign helped build the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she co-founded — and that challenge to the all-white Mississippi delegation shook the Democratic Party at its 1964 convention.
History gave her a footnote. She deserves a chapter.
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