Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times, John Polacheck, Harvard '64--4 was beaten up in Mississippi this summer. I have been in touch with people familiar with the situation in Carthage, Miss., and it appears he may be in serious trouble. He went to Mississippi from here about July 30, with a fellow from COFO to join the summer project. He was on his way to mail a letter when he was beaten up. A minister took him to a medical clinic to get aid, and the two were beaten again, arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. Apparently the white community has decided...
...since mid-July it has been the center of voter-registration activities for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO...
When the Mississippi Project began in 1964, this song became a theme for the summer. SNCC members of COFO returned to McComb in mid-July...
...history of the McComb COFO project really begins in July, 1961, when Robert Moses entered that area as a SNCC field secretary. Moses, a Negro from Harlem, had studied philosophy at Harvard Graduate School and taught mathematics at Horace Mann before he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
Patricia Hollander's photo essay and Peter Cummings' narrative present a fair picture of the Mississippi Summer Project. Cummings plays down the heavily political orientation of the COFO voter registration efforts, pointing out that this occupied only a small portion of his day in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Closer to home, the political activism of the Harvard Negro, and his increasing emotional allegiance to a form of black nationalism, is discussed by Harrison Young...