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Plans for the Washington project were worked out last week in a seven-day conference SNCC in Atlanta, Ga. The decisions at Atlanta probably mean that many fewer students will work this summer in Mississippi for the council of Federated Organizations (COFO)-the coalition of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SNCC had provided the bulk of the COFO volunteers...
SNCC presently has bout 250 workers In Mississippi. Most of them remained after last summer's project and will continue to work under the auspices of COFO. Likewise, CORE, which has concentrated on the state's fourth congressional district, will maintain its activities, according to James Farmer, CORE's executive director...
...Mississippi situation. I write this letter not to improve my relationships with Harvard students, but to aid the understanding of the statements and frame of reference in my article. My efforts were not directed at persuasion, but rather at the understanding of the Mississippi problem. I feel the COFO workers will agree that a lack of understanding on both sides was a costly handicap...
...movement has now shifted its objectives from the integration of public facilities to the more basic problems of voting, education, and job opportunities. In carrying out the extremely successful Mississippi Project last summer, COFO concentrated on voter registration and freedom schools and did not integrate a single lunch-counter or hotel. This shift comes from a growing realization that winning the right to buy a hamburger in a white lunch-counter is a dead-end, and is meaningless for Negroes who do not have the money to pay for one anyway. Only when Negroes can vote, or exercise power...
...King said that he regretted the NAACP had decided to pull out the civil rights coalition which the Mississippi Freedom . He added that SCLC would part of COFO, but indicated he favor restructuring the organiza...