Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initiate the but they did support it. Yesterday COFO met with the students warned them that they would be under an injunction against public buildings. They decided anyway. Marshall Gans '65, a field secretary for SNCC, and ten other COFO workers also picketed and were arrested...
...Bernstein, attorney for COFO, went to the Pike County jail shortly after the arrest and was reportedly beaten by jailer Ray Pound and two or three other...
...Decision-making--One of the basic philosophies of SNCC, and therefore COFO, is that local people must become the leaders of civil-rights activity. Since the SNCC worker cannot stay forever, local people must learn to make the decisions, avoid the mistakes, and continue the work that something like the Summer Project might initiate. In practice, however, this idea has received more lip-service than implementation, in some areas of Mississippi. And so the Atlanta Conference, held last week, was faced with the question: Who had been making the decisions in Mississippi and who should make them...
Plans for the Washington project were worked out last week in a seven-day conference SNCC in Atlanta, Ga. The decisions at Atlanta probably mean that many fewer students will work this summer in Mississippi for the council of Federated Organizations (COFO)-the coalition of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SNCC had provided the bulk of the COFO volunteers...
SNCC presently has bout 250 workers In Mississippi. Most of them remained after last summer's project and will continue to work under the auspices of COFO. Likewise, CORE, which has concentrated on the state's fourth congressional district, will maintain its activities, according to James Farmer, CORE's executive director...