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...Mississippi Legislature continues to forge legal weapons designed to combat restive civil rights forces in general, and the Summer Project of the Conference of Federated Organizations (COFO) in particular...
While we have been more than grateful for your coverage of and interest in the civil rights movement, we would like to comment on two recent articles in the CRIMSON which have given rise to certain misconceptions about this summer's Mississippi COFO project...
Weil said COFO officials feel the bill "is almost certainly unconstitutional one way or another." If it passes, "the trick will probably be to get an early test case set up," added...
...bill was introduced April 15 and is now in the Education Committee of the Legislature. "If the bill passes, specific measures on COFO's part will have to be mapped out, but there is no chance that the freedom school idea will by abandoned," COFO official Robert Weil said yesterday...
Local organizers of the COFO project, which will send more than a thousand Northern students into Mississippi this summer, had no information on the proposed law or its possible effects...