Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...COFO, the omnibus civil rights organization which is sponsoring a proposed two-month "invasion" of Mississippi by rights workers, has accepted about 800 voluteers, 38 from the University, for its project...
...deadline for applying for the COFO project was May 15, but Mrs. Dorothy Zeliner, New England representative of the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee, pointed out that not all the applications have been processed...
About a quarter of the volunteers are expected to work on voter registration projects, with 45 percent working in freedom schools. COFO also hopes to provide 100 workers in community centers, 100 lawyers and 10C clergymen...
Meanwhile legislators have been fully as busy as COFO In preparing for the summer. In addition to a number of bills that have already been passed, a "criminal syndicalism" law was introduced in both houses...
...schools will be staffed by some of the more than one thousand Northern students expected to join COFO's Summer Project. Other students will work in voter registration campaigns, community centers, and research projects on the social and political structure of Mississippi...