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...politely curious but unemotional audience last night heard three students discuss their summer's experience working with COFO in Mississippi...
...major issues discussed was the place of voter registration in the total movement. Claude Weaver '65-3, who spent a year in the state and a summer as project director in Panola County, explained that the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while perhaps the most significant accomplishment of COFO, is only a start, a way to get at "bread and butter issues." The larger economic problems, like land distributions, will have to be worked out by "traditional political tactics of discussion and compromise" by all the people of the state...
...intangible change in the mood of the Mississippi Negroes. Ellen Lake '66, who worked on community organization and voter registration in Gulfport, told of organizing "block captains" there to lead integration, in opposition to more conservative factions like the Negro ministry. She said that the withholding of official COFO support from a bus boycott that Gulfport Negroes were planning only increased their determination to carry it out; and she commented that such independence and initiative was a sign that within Mississippi there is the potential for leading the nation...
Peter Orris '67, who travelled throughout the state, saw the relations between the White Citizens' Council and COFO as "two hands brushing against each other, occasionally hitting a snag, but not yet actually making any full contact...
They described the Freedom Vote planned for Nov. 1-3, in which "mock election" COFO hopes more people will vote than in the real one, making it possible for them to challenge the legitimacy of the elected officials later...