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...West ern College for Women at Oxford, Ohio. There, two weeks ago, an in doctrination course started for some 800 Northern college students who had volunteered to spend the summer in Mississippi working toward increased Negro voting registration. The project was sponsored by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a combine of four civil rights organizations, and by the National Council of Churches...
Chancy was one of Schwerner's most helpful aides. He was a slender Meridian Negro lad who had dropped out of high school as a sophomore, became a plasterer, eventually joined CORE. When COFO called for volunteer instructors for the Ohio training course, Chancy went with Schwerner...
Civil rights supporters will stage Saturday a send-off rally for students working in Mississippi with the massive Summer Project of the Congress of Federated Organizations (COFO...
About a quarter of the volunteers are expected to work on voter registration projects, with 45 percent working in freedom schools. COFO also hopes to provide 100 workers in community centers, 100 lawyers and 10C clergymen...
Meanwhile legislators have been fully as busy as COFO In preparing for the summer. In addition to a number of bills that have already been passed, a "criminal syndicalism" law was introduced in both houses...