Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas '66 said last night demonstration had been "a protest against the police judicial processes" in Miss. Thomas has been for COFO and the MFDP in since last summer...
...says Hodding Carter's Delta Democrat-Times. "They want revolutionary change of a kind which goes far beyond the question of an equal chance for all men." Middle-class Negroes, many of them veteran members of the N.A.A.C.P., charge that the ministry and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), are conspiring to oust them from leadership of the civil rights movement...
...Wilkins, national president of the NAACP, took a swipe at COFO last week when he announced his group's summer plans. "This will be a campaign with the NAACP family in charge," he said. "It will be the case of NAACP sponsored workers going to work with our organizations in these states. This will not be strangers coming to Mississippi and moving alone into strange communities...
Only Berkeley sent more volunteers than Harvard on last summer's COFO project in Mississippi. At present, however, it appears that very few Harvard students will be working in the South this summer. This is not because enthusiasm for civil rights has fallen off appreciably here but because of the decision, and indecisiveness, of the civil rights groups themselves both nationally and on campus...
SNCC, which lead the COFO coalition, has deliberately avoided mass recruitment of Northerners for Southern work. The group decided early this year to emphasize Negro initiative at the local level and to turn recruitment over to individual community projects throughout Mississippi. Many of last year's volunteers will certainly be invited back, and anyone is free to sign up now for consideration by the local leaders. But the invitation procedure will be much more quiet and less glamorous than last year's drive...