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Much of the effort of the COFO Mississippi Summer Project has been focussed in recent weeks on aiding the attempt of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to unseat the regular Democratic state delegation to the Atlantic City convention...
Hodes said that similar incidents have been occurring in Greenwood quite regularly. John Handy, a local Negro, was arrested the same day and beaten more severely than Hodes. He was also released on bond. A female COFO worker was arrested Sunday on a charge of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Four hours later the charge was dropped...
...home of Robert J. Miles, a Panola County civil rights leader, when the incident occured. A car drove up in front of the house, someone got out and threw a grenade on the roof. The car sped away as Cowan, Miles, Weaver, Miss Amatniek, and two other COFO workers ran out of the house to escape the fumes...
Miss Amatniek said that Miles had received numerous threatening telephone calls because he had whites living in his house. She theorized, however, that the attack was directly prompted by the success of the COFO voter registration drive in Panola County. The number of registered Negroes has jumped from 30 to 400 since the COFO campaign began...
...short training session, beginning July 31, will be held in "an Eastern city," Whaman said; COFO officials are now negotiating or facilities. He said that Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, where the first group of volunteers aws trained, has already been engaged by another group...