Word: cofo
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...uneasy truce has existed in Neshoba County ever since COFO set up its Philadelphia project in late August. Plans for establishing an office earlier in the summer were postponed after the three workers were murdered there...
...COFO in Philadelphia...
...Seven COFO workers--all male, for the area is considered too dangerous for girls--are now operating in Neshoba, doing voter and Freedom registration and organizing a farmers' league for the local Negroes, most of whom support themselves by farming and sharecropping. In September, COFO workers drove a bookmobile around the county, reading books and telling stories to the children who gathered round. Now, however, the bookmobile has been replaced by freedom school classes, which began Wednesday in the bottom of the COFO office. The Freedom School shares the office, a former hotel, with a 600-book library, the voter...
...evening after the first Freedom Day a white, who was drunk, walked into COFO headquarters with a pistol bulging in his pocket. He began a conversation with one of the workers in which he threatened his life--but he left when the worker calmly walked out of the room...
Some local Negroes have been intimidated for their support of the freedom movement. Several weeks ago, the principal of the Negro high school suspended 57 students for wearing freedom buttons to class. COFO workers who inquired were told that such pins were not educational and it was "against school policy" to allow students to wear such "controversial material." The students have filed suit against the superintendent, the principal, and the board of education, alleging that their rights under the First Amendment and the Civil Rights Act have been infringed...