Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telephone at 1017 Lynch St., Jackson, Mississippi, receives calls 24 hours a day. Here the headquarters of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) keeps in touch with its "freedom workers" throughout the state. Daily event summaries are mimeo'd in the office and sent out to all project members. Arrests, bombings, and beatings which are not printed by the local and national press are thus reported to those who are, COFO says, "on the front-lines...
Three week ago, McComb COFO director Jesse Harris wrote a detailed letter to Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for civil rights...
Acros the state COFO members left that the movement into McComb was a test of the project and their song, We Shall Never Turn Back...
Five Negroes had been murdered in the McComb area during the spring and violence soon greeted the new COFO workers. On July 8 a bomb blast destoyed the front of the Freedom House where ten workers were sleeping. Curtis Hayes was badly cut by flying glass...
Robert, Coles, Research Psychiatrist to the University Health Services, was in McComb working for COFO during this period. Coles, who was often harassed by city police and once chased by a car at night, recounts one incident...