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...Times, John Polacheck, Harvard '64--4 was beaten up in Mississippi this summer. I have been in touch with people familiar with the situation in Carthage, Miss., and it appears he may be in serious trouble. He went to Mississippi from here about July 30, with a fellow from COFO to join the summer project. He was on his way to mail a letter when he was beaten up. A minister took him to a medical clinic to get aid, and the two were beaten again, arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. Apparently the white community has decided...
Acros the state COFO members left that the movement into McComb was a test of the project and their song, We Shall Never Turn Back...
Five Negroes had been murdered in the McComb area during the spring and violence soon greeted the new COFO workers. On July 8 a bomb blast destoyed the front of the Freedom House where ten workers were sleeping. Curtis Hayes was badly cut by flying glass...
When the Mississippi Project began in 1964, this song became a theme for the summer. SNCC members of COFO returned to McComb in mid-July...
...history of the McComb COFO project really begins in July, 1961, when Robert Moses entered that area as a SNCC field secretary. Moses, a Negro from Harlem, had studied philosophy at Harvard Graduate School and taught mathematics at Horace Mann before he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...