Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer, civil rights activity in the South was focussed on Mississippi and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC and other groups. But because several of the organizations were dissatisfied with COFO and because Mississippi was considered sufficiently "improved," the major civil rights groups decided to branch out into other Southern trouble spots. This summer each organization will be operating its separate summer project...
...Mississippi branch of the NAACP was one of the four civil rights groups in the COFO coalition (Henry was president of COFO.). But during the summer and increasingly into the winter, the Association became more and more unhappy with what it considered SNCC's domination of COFO. This dissatisfaction went beyond annoyance at playing second fiddle to SNCC, however. The basic disagreement was with SNCC's radicalism. Two weeks ago, the Mississippi branches of the NAACP withdrew from COFO...
...students under 18 were released to their parents, but the COFO workers were transferred to the Hinds County jail in Jackson City, 100 miles from where they were arrested. The Highway Patrol gave no reason for their transfer...
Joseph Martin, a communications worker for COFO, said that the students believe that the injunction is illegal because it violates their constitutional rights to petition, and that the injunction should have been issued against the registrar...
...COFO scheduled a mass meeting for last night to plan further action against use of the literacy test, which has been abolished in other Mississippi counties. They also hope to establish a mobile registration unit which would travel through Negro communities in an effort to increase Negro voting