Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Three week ago, McComb COFO director Jesse Harris wrote a detailed letter to Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for civil rights...
...Times, John Polacheck, Harvard '64--4 was beaten up in Mississippi this summer. I have been in touch with people familiar with the situation in Carthage, Miss., and it appears he may be in serious trouble. He went to Mississippi from here about July 30, with a fellow from COFO to join the summer project. He was on his way to mail a letter when he was beaten up. A minister took him to a medical clinic to get aid, and the two were beaten again, arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. Apparently the white community has decided...
Acros the state COFO members left that the movement into McComb was a test of the project and their song, We Shall Never Turn Back...
Five Negroes had been murdered in the McComb area during the spring and violence soon greeted the new COFO workers. On July 8 a bomb blast destoyed the front of the Freedom House where ten workers were sleeping. Curtis Hayes was badly cut by flying glass...
Robert, Coles, Research Psychiatrist to the University Health Services, was in McComb working for COFO during this period. Coles, who was often harassed by city police and once chased by a car at night, recounts one incident...