Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weil said COFO officials feel the bill "is almost certainly unconstitutional one way or another." If it passes, "the trick will probably be to get an early test case set up," added...
...which would require all schools in the state to be licensed by a country superintendent of education. There is little doubt among civil rights workers here and in Mississippi that the bill is aimed directly at the freedom schools planned for this summer by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO...
...bill was introduced April 15 and is now in the Education Committee of the Legislature. "If the bill passes, specific measures on COFO's part will have to be mapped out, but there is no chance that the freedom school idea will by abandoned," COFO official Robert Weil said yesterday...
Local organizers of the COFO project, which will send more than a thousand Northern students into Mississippi this summer, had no information on the proposed law or its possible effects...
...much these tactics will be used is anybody's guess. The rumors which make their way northward range from "wholesale jailing" to "sporadic harrassment." COFO recruiters do not hesitate to warn prospective applicants of the possibility that they may be beaten, or shot at, and are discouraging northern white girls from applying. The real truth right now is that probably no one--not even Mississippi officials--really knows what will happen...