Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi situation. I write this letter not to improve my relationships with Harvard students, but to aid the understanding of the statements and frame of reference in my article. My efforts were not directed at persuasion, but rather at the understanding of the Mississippi problem. I feel the COFO workers will agree that a lack of understanding on both sides was a costly handicap...
...movement has now shifted its objectives from the integration of public facilities to the more basic problems of voting, education, and job opportunities. In carrying out the extremely successful Mississippi Project last summer, COFO concentrated on voter registration and freedom schools and did not integrate a single lunch-counter or hotel. This shift comes from a growing realization that winning the right to buy a hamburger in a white lunch-counter is a dead-end, and is meaningless for Negroes who do not have the money to pay for one anyway. Only when Negroes can vote, or exercise power...
...King said that he regretted the NAACP had decided to pull out the civil rights coalition which the Mississippi Freedom . He added that SCLC would part of COFO, but indicated he favor restructuring the organiza...
...cause and effect relationship seems to have been confused concerning the "shabby appearance of the workers." The COFO workers did wear blue-jeans and they did wear tennis shoes, in fact many needed hair-cuts and shaves. The cause for such appearances was due to the fact that a majority of these workers were living with Negro families who lacked proper plumbing facilities and hot water. The pride that was supposed to have been created in the Negroes by the outward appearance of the workers was created by their inner devotion to this cause. This devotion prevailing even though...
...because of the consequences that will be imposed upon them by the Mississippians. No blame, however can be placed on these people because large numbers did respond to the project by attending freedom schools and meetings which were always held under the shadow of a potential bombing. As one COFO worker said last week; "We can always get out of here. We are white. Worry about the Negroes, the Negroes in Mississippi. They are the heroes." Ronald Wilson