Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teachers are being recruited only in New York, Boston Philadelphia and Washington, according to Thomas Whaman, co-ordinator of the Freedom Schools. Ten people signed up in Washington on Wednerday. Whaman said, however, that it is too early to estimate whether COFO will reach its goal...
...COFO attorneys' petition to remand the case to federal court had already been granted, however. Thus, a COFO spokesman indicated that the civil rights organization felt the city trial would be ruled void and that the 98 would be freed this morning...
...Ashland, Mississippi, a small town 17 miles from Holly Springs, Peter Cummings '65 was arrested for not having an inspection sticker on his car yesterday morning, held on $250 bond, and tried at 4 p.m. Following several telephone calls from COFO headquarters to the Ashland police, Cummings was released after paying a small fine...
Goldstein and two other COFO workers were arrested Thursday on charges of "picketing and mass demonstration and blocking the ingress and egress to the (Harrison County) courthouse." Eight COFO workers were accompanying ten Negroes to the courthouse to vote. The sheriff approached the courthouse steps and ordered all persons not residents of Harrison County to move to the other side of the street. Wiley and the two others refused to comply...
Martin H. Peretz, teaching fellow in Government, said last night that he and John F. Maher '60 have collected an, additional $4000. The money will be used to equip the cars used by COFO workers with radio telephones...