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...They're Just Hiding." Thus ended a six-week search that began after the three men disappeared on June 21, just one day after they had arrived in Mississippi. They had attended a week-long indoctrination course, sponsored by a civil rights coalition called the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. Schwerner, son of a Pelham, N.Y. wigmaker and a graduate of Cornell, had been working for the Congress of Racial Equality in Meridian, Miss., since January, had volunteered to go up to Oxford to instruct Northern students in voter-registration techniques. Chancy...
...Negro church near Philadelphia. All worked with the Council of Federated Organizations in Meridian, Miss., setting up voter-registration projects. Chaney, a Negro, was a native of Meridian. Goodman, a New Yorker, had begun work only that day. Schwerner, a bearded youth from New York, had been a COFO worker in Philadelphia for six months. Because of his civil rights aggressiveness and because he was Jewish, he had been marked for death as early as May by an occult, segregationist organization called the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Founded just last March, the Knights dedicated themselves to carrying...
...Frank and the young leftists just didn't know each other very well. Many of Frank's undergraduate connections are in Winthrop House, never known as a bastion of radicalism. Moreover, Frank was not tempermentally inclined to seek out students on the left. Though he worked in Mississippi for COFO in the summer of 1964, he had not, like many civil rights workers, cut his ties with conventional politics. Far from it, he remained a Regular Democrat (capital R and capital D), even if a very liberal one. During the past state campaign he worked for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate...
Actually his play deals with the dilemma of a Southern white moderate who has witnessed the murders and goes into a Hamlet-like state of indecision about whether or not to tell anyone. Don Tindall, Sklar's Hamlet, is in love with Jean Portugal, a COFO girl from the North. With this premise And People All Around cannot avoid being yet another treatment of the predicament of the uncommited white man. Not that everything has already been said on this matter, but coming from such an obviously committed individual as Mr. Sklar, his play seems to have an excessively moderate...
...COFO people come off as stereotypes of the Northern civil rights worker. (For some reason, incidentally, Sklar uses real organizations like COFO, but substitutes for the KKK or White Citizens' Council a group called the "Redeemers...