Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Much of the effort of the COFO Mississippi Summer Project has been focussed in recent weeks on aiding the attempt of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to unseat the regular Democratic state delegation to the Atlantic City convention...
...addition to their voter registration drive, COFO workers have helped recruit large numbers of Mississippi Negroes for the MFDP. In Jackson alone, 34,000 persons have joined the party--though the majority of them are not registered to vote...
...COFO workers have assisted in organizing county MFDP conventions thoughout the state. Last Thursday the state convention met and selected the Atlantic City delegation...
Hodes said that similar incidents have been occurring in Greenwood quite regularly. John Handy, a local Negro, was arrested the same day and beaten more severely than Hodes. He was also released on bond. A female COFO worker was arrested Sunday on a charge of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Four hours later the charge was dropped...
Miss Amatniek said that Miles had received numerous threatening telephone calls because he had whites living in his house. She theorized, however, that the attack was directly prompted by the success of the COFO voter registration drive in Panola County. The number of registered Negroes has jumped from 30 to 400 since the COFO campaign began...