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...twelve-car motorcade pulled away from the COFO office in Philadelphia Miss. on Monday and headed for the Neshoba County courthouse, carrying four COFO workers and 39 local Negro citizens who wanted to register...
Except for one COFO worker who was roughed up, the only incident of the day was the arrest of one registrant on charges of passing a bad check...
Philadelphia COFO workers had not thought on Sunday evening that the second "Freedom Day" would be so peaceful. Rainy and Price the day before, told COFO staff members that they would be out of town on Freedom Day. "You'll be on your own" the sheriff and deputy sheriff had said...
That spelled trouble. On the first Freedom Day on Sept. 14, a local white citizen had beaten a COFO photographer over the head with a blackjack and smashed his $250 camera...
...evidently Rainey and Price were apprehensive themselves, for late Sunday evening, they called COFO to say they would be around after all. "When we found out how many people were coming to register, we decided to postpone the trip a day," Price explained afterward...