Word: mccomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi Summer Project began sending its new volunteers into the state on June 21,1964. But only a couple of experienced workers went into McComb in order to survey the situation...
...until early July did the order come that the McComb project would go into operation. Volunteers who has been training for this job, in Holmes Country and other areas, left for the southwest...
When the Mississippi Project began in 1964, this song became a theme for the summer. SNCC members of COFO returned to McComb in mid-July...
...McComb was a lesson for Moses and SNCC. It showed that Mississippi was unlike any other Southern state, in that the outcome of nonviolent sit-ins and demonstrations was only furious brutality. The freedom movement moved further north in the state and began its work slowly in less dangerous areas...
...McComb was always a sore spot for the young nonviolents, and a song came out of the area, called We Shall Never Turn Back. One verse goes...