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...initiate the but they did support it. Yesterday COFO met with the students warned them that they would be under an injunction against public buildings. They decided anyway. Marshall Gans '65, a field secretary for SNCC, and ten other COFO workers also picketed and were arrested...
...Bernstein, attorney for COFO, went to the Pike County jail shortly after the arrest and was reportedly beaten by jailer Ray Pound and two or three other...
...students under 18 were released to their parents, but the COFO workers were transferred to the Hinds County jail in Jackson City, 100 miles from where they were arrested. The Highway Patrol gave no reason for their transfer...
Joseph Martin, a communications worker for COFO, said that the students believe that the injunction is illegal because it violates their constitutional rights to petition, and that the injunction should have been issued against the registrar...
...Decision-making--One of the basic philosophies of SNCC, and therefore COFO, is that local people must become the leaders of civil-rights activity. Since the SNCC worker cannot stay forever, local people must learn to make the decisions, avoid the mistakes, and continue the work that something like the Summer Project might initiate. In practice, however, this idea has received more lip-service than implementation, in some areas of Mississippi. And so the Atlanta Conference, held last week, was faced with the question: Who had been making the decisions in Mississippi and who should make them...