And finally, Victoria Gray Adams, the co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party has died. Along with Fannie Lou Hamer, Victoria Gray Adams founded the party with on the belief that the Democratic Party in Mississippi didn’t welcome black participation. Gray-Adams was the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate from the State of Mississippi. She was a member of the board of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a national delegate to the Democratic Party’s national convention in 1964, where she challenged the Democrats and President Lyndon Johnson.