Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politely curious but unemotional audience last night heard three students discuss their summer's experience working with COFO in Mississippi...
...major issues discussed was the place of voter registration in the total movement. Claude Weaver '65-3, who spent a year in the state and a summer as project director in Panola County, explained that the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while perhaps the most significant accomplishment of COFO, is only a start, a way to get at "bread and butter issues." The larger economic problems, like land distributions, will have to be worked out by "traditional political tactics of discussion and compromise" by all the people of the state...
...intangible change in the mood of the Mississippi Negroes. Ellen Lake '66, who worked on community organization and voter registration in Gulfport, told of organizing "block captains" there to lead integration, in opposition to more conservative factions like the Negro ministry. She said that the withholding of official COFO support from a bus boycott that Gulfport Negroes were planning only increased their determination to carry it out; and she commented that such independence and initiative was a sign that within Mississippi there is the potential for leading the nation...
Chief Deputy Sheriff Sanford Fowler came to the COFO office and grabbed and shook local SNCC worker, Samuel Jackson...
Hattiesurg: Rev. Robert Beach, part of COFO's ministers' project, assaulted by a white hardware store owner...