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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...home of Robert J. Miles, a Panola County civil rights leader, when the incident occured. A car drove up in front of the house, someone got out and threw a grenade on the roof. The car sped away as Cowan, Miles, Weaver, Miss Amatniek, and two other COFO workers ran out of the house to escape the fumes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Group Routed in Miss. By Tear Gas | 7/28/1964 | See Source »

Whaman said that the "tremendous demand "for Freedom Schools from Negroes throughout Mississippi had prompted COFO's decision to expand the program. "I don't think anyone expected the response we've gotten," he said...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: COFO Seeks Teachers For Freedom Schools | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...teachers are being recruited only in New York, Boston Philadelphia and Washington, according to Thomas Whaman, co-ordinator of the Freedom Schools. Ten people signed up in Washington on Wednerday. Whaman said, however, that it is too early to estimate whether COFO will reach its goal...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: COFO Seeks Teachers For Freedom Schools | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...COFO had wanted to maintain a 5-1 student-teacher ratio, Whaman said, but so many Negroes have enrolled that the ratio is nearer 10-1. There are 200 teachers for the 1900 pupils in the state...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: COFO Seeks Teachers For Freedom Schools | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...short training session, beginning July 31, will be held in "an Eastern city," Whaman said; COFO officials are now negotiating or facilities. He said that Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, where the first group of volunteers aws trained, has already been engaged by another group...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: COFO Seeks Teachers For Freedom Schools | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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