Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank and the young leftists just didn't know each other very well. Many of Frank's undergraduate connections are in Winthrop House, never known as a bastion of radicalism. Moreover, Frank was not tempermentally inclined to seek out students on the left. Though he worked in Mississippi for COFO in the summer of 1964, he had not, like many civil rights workers, cut his ties with conventional politics. Far from it, he remained a Regular Democrat (capital R and capital D), even if a very liberal one. During the past state campaign he worked for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate...
Actually his play deals with the dilemma of a Southern white moderate who has witnessed the murders and goes into a Hamlet-like state of indecision about whether or not to tell anyone. Don Tindall, Sklar's Hamlet, is in love with Jean Portugal, a COFO girl from the North. With this premise And People All Around cannot avoid being yet another treatment of the predicament of the uncommited white man. Not that everything has already been said on this matter, but coming from such an obviously committed individual as Mr. Sklar, his play seems to have an excessively moderate...
...COFO people come off as stereotypes of the Northern civil rights worker. (For some reason, incidentally, Sklar uses real organizations like COFO, but substitutes for the KKK or White Citizens' Council a group called the "Redeemers...
Class loyalty is more important to the teenage generation than economic or political principles, Goodman said. Youth is not interested in taking power, "for fear of getting caught in the old rat race," he continued. COFO's work in Mississippi two summers ago demonstrates the spontaneous, non-hierarchical "populist movement" which characterizes today's youth, according to Goodman...
Ever since it was founded last July, the Courier has been digging out and printing civil rights news that most other Southern papers ignore. Published in Montgomery, Ala., the Courier is the brainchild of Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers who went South in the summer of 1964, and soon felt that the local press was either disregarding their work or utterly distorting it. In desperation, two Harvard Crimson staffers-Peter Cummings and Ellen Lake-started mimeographing sheets of news and passing them around. This summer they decided to put out a paper on a permanent, year-round basis...