Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve-car motorcade pulled away from the COFO office in Philadelphia Miss. on Monday and headed for the Neshoba County courthouse, carrying four COFO workers and 39 local Negro citizens who wanted to register...
Except for one COFO worker who was roughed up, the only incident of the day was the arrest of one registrant on charges of passing a bad check...
Philadelphia COFO workers had not thought on Sunday evening that the second "Freedom Day" would be so peaceful. Rainy and Price the day before, told COFO staff members that they would be out of town on Freedom Day. "You'll be on your own" the sheriff and deputy sheriff had said...
Peter Orris '67, who travelled throughout the state, saw the relations between the White Citizens' Council and COFO as "two hands brushing against each other, occasionally hitting a snag, but not yet actually making any full contact...
They described the Freedom Vote planned for Nov. 1-3, in which "mock election" COFO hopes more people will vote than in the real one, making it possible for them to challenge the legitimacy of the elected officials later...