Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That spelled trouble. On the first Freedom Day on Sept. 14, a local white citizen had beaten a COFO photographer over the head with a blackjack and smashed his $250 camera...
...evidently Rainey and Price were apprehensive themselves, for late Sunday evening, they called COFO to say they would be around after all. "When we found out how many people were coming to register, we decided to postpone the trip a day," Price explained afterward...
Such cooperation between civil rights workers and local law officers is new in Neshoba County. Last June three COFO workers were-murdered after being held in jail for six hours on a speeding charge. Recently, five law enforcement officers (Rainey, Price, two policemen and a former sheriff) were arrested and indicted by a Federal grand jury for beating six Philadedphia Negroes, and thus violating their civil rights...
...COFO workers in Philadelphia felt their return quickly. According to Ralph Featherstone, 25-year old Negro COFO worker from Washington, D.C., Rainey and Price circled the office four times that evening...
...uneasy truce has existed in Neshoba County ever since COFO set up its Philadelphia project in late August. Plans for establishing an office earlier in the summer were postponed after the three workers were murdered there...