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...rural town of Gluckstadt, Mississippi, 10 miles north of Jackson, housed one of the many freedom schools set up this summer as part of the COFO Project in Mississippi. Classes each morning opened with freedom songs (right). The classes were held outdoors after the church in which they had been meeting was burned down on August 10. As part of a citizenship class, the students all wrote to President Johnson, asking for further FBI investigation of this and other church burnings...
Soon, however, the jailings and beatings became regular events. Even the Summer News sketchy news coverage reported several Harvard students arrested each week. Barry Goldstein '64 and two other COFO workers were arrested in Gulfport, Mississippi on July 9; the following day another Harvard student was arrested in Haddiesurg. Peter Orris '67 and Peter Cummings '65 received tastes of Mississippi justice in the middle of July. Orris was arrested with a crowd of 98 others during a Freedom Day in Greenwood, Miss. while Cummings was detained for a day for not having an inspection sticker...
...constant harassment, the knowledge of dangers breeds a tension that even jokes and laughter never throw off. When the COFO worker leaves the freedom house he signs out for a specific time--if he is not back at the office at that time, or has not phoned or radioed in (by August most project cars had two-way radios), a local search will begin. As time passes, the Greenwood and Jackson COFO offices are notified and the search is extended. The FBI is called...
...Last night's demonstration was a creative decision in the sense that it brought the delegation and the COFO workers out of their deep dispair. The whole purpose of the Freedom Party is to get the vote. We have the right to dramatize the fact that we have seats without a vote...
Patricia Hollander's photo essay and Peter Cummings' narrative present a fair picture of the Mississippi Summer Project. Cummings plays down the heavily political orientation of the COFO voter registration efforts, pointing out that this occupied only a small portion of his day in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Closer to home, the political activism of the Harvard Negro, and his increasing emotional allegiance to a form of black nationalism, is discussed by Harrison Young...