Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...Zellner called the COFO project "unprecedented." She said it was "the first time segregation has been attacked from so many angles by so many people...
...students will be teaching in freedom schools established throughout the state by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), an alliance of local civil rights groups. The COFO project is expected to draw more than a thousand students to Mississippi. Many of them will teach in the freedom schools...
...civil rights will do field work, such as helping Negroes register to vote. Those in the field run a greater risk of clashing with the police, Mrs. Dorothy Zellner, New England representative of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, said yesterday, SNCC provides most of the manpower for COFO...
...freedom schools will teach basic subjects such as civics and English composition, mechanical skills such as sewing and running mimeograph machines. More importantly, Mrs. Zellner explained COFO hopes that contact with Northern students will give local Negroes an idea of the opportunities opened to them through education...
Moreover, the COFO project will aim at giving Negro students pride in the achievements of their race. John O'Neal, a SNCC field secretary, is organising a "Freedom Theater,"--a company of Mississippi Negroes which will tour the state performing works by Negro authors such as Ossis Davis and Langston Hughes...