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Viewing Mississippi as the central battlefield in the fight for equal rights, COFO aims at recruiting up to 2000 workers, mostly out-of-state students, for a many-faceted attack on the political, social and legal structures of the state...
...Zellner called the COFO project "unprecedented." She said it was "the first time segregation has been attacked from so many angles by so many people...
...added that COFO is still unsure of local reaction to the project. It is known that Jackson, the state capital, has expanded its police force and added anti-riot weapons such as dogs and an armored tank to the police arsenal...
Moreover, the COFO project will aim at giving Negro students pride in the achievements of their race. John O'Neal, a SNCC field secretary, is organising a "Freedom Theater,"--a company of Mississippi Negroes which will tour the state performing works by Negro authors such as Ossis Davis and Langston Hughes...
...tactics vary "from community to community," Mrs. Zellner said, "and nobody knows what they'll do." In general, however, "there is a lot of trepidstion," she said. None of the COFO wokers in Mississippi doubt that "things are going to be very hot this summer...