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Finally in mid-August the first groups of people began to take the five-minute walk down to the court house to get on the registration roles. A Harvard senior, Marshall Ganz '65, helped organize the registration. (Ganz will return to McComb this week and will stay there for a' year...
...August 28 the Summer Project was scheduled to come to a close, but about 200 workers chose to remain in the state and ten stayed on in McComb...
Even voter registration was considered too dangerous for the time being. And so a Freedom School was begun to organize the McComb community. Ralph Featherstone, a 25-year-old Negro speech teacher from Washington, D.C., arrived on the project and took charge of the school...
Robert, Coles, Research Psychiatrist to the University Health Services, was in McComb working for COFO during this period. Coles, who was often harassed by city police and once chased by a car at night, recounts one incident...
...national attention shifted away from Mississippi and the FBI cut down its force in McComb, a new wave of bombings beatings, and arrests struck the area. There were four bombings last week and right now 16 local Negroes are in jail on charges of criminal syndicalism