Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...rural town of Gluckstadt, Mississippi, 10 miles north of Jackson, housed one of the many freedom schools set up this summer as part of the COFO Project in Mississippi. Classes each morning opened with freedom songs (right). The classes were held outdoors after the church in which they had been meeting was burned down on August 10. As part of a citizenship class, the students all wrote to President Johnson, asking for further FBI investigation of this and other church burnings...
Soon, however, the jailings and beatings became regular events. Even the Summer News sketchy news coverage reported several Harvard students arrested each week. Barry Goldstein '64 and two other COFO workers were arrested in Gulfport, Mississippi on July 9; the following day another Harvard student was arrested in Haddiesurg. Peter Orris '67 and Peter Cummings '65 received tastes of Mississippi justice in the middle of July. Orris was arrested with a crowd of 98 others during a Freedom Day in Greenwood, Miss. while Cummings was detained for a day for not having an inspection sticker...
...constant harassment, the knowledge of dangers breeds a tension that even jokes and laughter never throw off. When the COFO worker leaves the freedom house he signs out for a specific time--if he is not back at the office at that time, or has not phoned or radioed in (by August most project cars had two-way radios), a local search will begin. As time passes, the Greenwood and Jackson COFO offices are notified and the search is extended. The FBI is called...
...Meridian COFO office, for example, called the FBI at 9 p.m. on June 21, notifying them that the trio of workers was missing. Had the FBI acted then, with a routine visit or phone call to local jails, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman might be alive today...
Washington attorney Joseph Rauh, Jr. Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, and James Farmer were also in Atlantic City that Friday. All five northern civil rights leaders were working as advisors to Aaron Henry, chairman of the MFDP delegation, and Bob Moses, director of the COFO Summer Project...