Victoria Gray Adams has died. She was a pioneering civil rights
activist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The physical and moral
courage of these civil rights pioneers is truly inspiring. She
was also one of a group of “Mississippi Freedom Democrats” who
fought to be recognized by the national Democratic Party in
1964. That year, the all-white state Democratic machine sent a
hand-picked delegation that included no black members. The AP
has the story: Victoria Gray Adams, who helped open Freedom
Schools that pushed for civil rights in Mississippi in 1964 and
became a founding member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party, died Saturday at her home.She was 73. Adams was a
Hattiesburg, Miss. native. Along with Fannie Lou Hamer and
others, she attempted to unseat the all-white Mississippi
Democratic Party delegation during the 1964 Democratic National
Convention at Atlantic City, NJ. While they did not replace the
all-white group, the Freedom Democrats brought national
attention to Mississippi's racial and pol