<P> In time some activists from the Northeast, including some of the Freedom Riders, would come to dominate the administration of the new party . </P> <P> On August 4, before the state convention, the bodies of James Earl Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were discovered buried in an earthen dam . They had been workers with CORE, registering people to vote for the MFDP, and had been murdered for their activism . Missing for weeks since disappearing after investigating a church burning in June 1964, they were subjects of a massive manhunt that involved the FBI and United States sailors from a nearby base . The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner drew national attention and generated outrage, emboldening the MFDP to be the party to represent the state of Mississippi . </P> <P> August 6, 1964, the MFDP held a statewide convention before attending the DNC; 2,500 people showed up at the Masonic Temple . They decided to take the party to the national credentials committee and attempt to be seated as the delegation from Mississippi . Joseph Rauh, the MFDP legal council and a foremost civil liberties attorney, spoke at the convention . He said that the MFDP was the only party in the state loyal to the national Democratic Party and "The chances of success were excellent". </P> <P> Ella Baker was the keynote speaker at the state convention . She did not deliver the kind of address that the people were expecting on voting and rights but made a statement about society: </P>

Who spoke for the mississippi freedom democratic party in the 1964 democratic convention