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...which would require all schools in the state to be licensed by a country superintendent of education. There is little doubt among civil rights workers here and in Mississippi that the bill is aimed directly at the freedom schools planned for this summer by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO...
...help in the development of political leadership, COFO will establish ten daytime and three resident Freedom Schools--"to de-brainwash the kids," one SNCC worker said. The schools, which will operate five days a week, will include remedial work in reading, math, and grammar, as well as seminars in political science, the humanities, journalism, and creative writing. About 100 teachers--many of them professionals on summer vacation--will instruct the students, who will be 10th, 11th, and 12th graders...
Several smaller projects will complete the COFO campaign. Some workers will do extensive research into the political and economic structure of Mississippi to provide background material for COFO's political work. Others--about 30 Southern white students who have recently joined the civil rights movement--will enter white communities to try to extend to poor white areas the movement's attack on bigotry, poverty, and ignorance...
...going to take the invasion lying down. The state legislature has been busy in recent months making laws to welcome visitors--enlargement of the state highway patrol and restrictions on picketing, demonstrations, breach of the peace and boycott. One bill currently before the legislature would effectively outlaw all of COFO's Freedom Schools...
...much these tactics will be used is anybody's guess. The rumors which make their way northward range from "wholesale jailing" to "sporadic harrassment." COFO recruiters do not hesitate to warn prospective applicants of the possibility that they may be beaten, or shot at, and are discouraging northern white girls from applying. The real truth right now is that probably no one--not even Mississippi officials--really knows what will happen...