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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...
...Thomas '66 said last night demonstration had been "a protest against the police judicial processes" in Miss. Thomas has been for COFO and the MFDP in since last summer...
...says Hodding Carter's Delta Democrat-Times. "They want revolutionary change of a kind which goes far beyond the question of an equal chance for all men." Middle-class Negroes, many of them veteran members of the N.A.A.C.P., charge that the ministry and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), are conspiring to oust them from leadership of the civil rights movement...
SNCC, which lead the COFO coalition, has deliberately avoided mass recruitment of Northerners for Southern work. The group decided early this year to emphasize Negro initiative at the local level and to turn recruitment over to individual community projects throughout Mississippi. Many of last year's volunteers will certainly be invited back, and anyone is free to sign up now for consideration by the local leaders. But the invitation procedure will be much more quiet and less glamorous than last year's drive...