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...local police. One worker who was in Minnesota for a few days said, "I was a paranoid, I started to flinch every time I saw a police car. I had to remind myself that I wasn't in Mississippi." The fear was in the hearts of the COFO workers, not the natives, not the guntoting "peace" officers typified by Sheriff Rainey and his deputy...
...cause and effect relationship seems to have been confused concerning the "shabby appearance of the workers." The COFO workers did wear blue-jeans and they did wear tennis shoes, in fact many needed hair-cuts and shaves. The cause for such appearances was due to the fact that a majority of these workers were living with Negro families who lacked proper plumbing facilities and hot water. The pride that was supposed to have been created in the Negroes by the outward appearance of the workers was created by their inner devotion to this cause. This devotion prevailing even though...
...because of the consequences that will be imposed upon them by the Mississippians. No blame, however can be placed on these people because large numbers did respond to the project by attending freedom schools and meetings which were always held under the shadow of a potential bombing. As one COFO worker said last week; "We can always get out of here. We are white. Worry about the Negroes, the Negroes in Mississippi. They are the heroes." Ronald Wilson
...CRIMSON. It was a refreshing example of pluralism, which is perhaps not so rare at Harvard after all. Some interesting insights into the mind of a Mississippian were provided, as well as into life in Mississippi. For instance, why was it so important to the white Mississippians that the COFO workers were "shabby" and "unclean"? Perhaps it was convenient for COFO's opponents, but I see no real significance, even in terms of "white standards." But it is possible that the COFO workers would have made more progress if they had made the sacrifice of cleanliness. Or, if this would...
...that someone at the CRIMSON felt he had to label this essay "A Segregationist's Viewpoint," though. Rorer definitely does not impress me as a segregationist, in any legitimate sense of the word. Being a white man from Mississippi does not make one a segregationist, nor does differing with COFO aims and methods. He states that most Mississippians believe that segregation is morally right, and that Mississippi is trying to maintain a segregated mode of life. But does he support it in this aspect of its struggle? Does he defend the Mississippians' "civil right" to segregate? He does not. Were...