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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...
Acros the state COFO members left that the movement into McComb was a test of the project and their song, We Shall Never Turn Back...
Five Negroes had been murdered in the McComb area during the spring and violence soon greeted the new COFO workers. On July 8 a bomb blast destoyed the front of the Freedom House where ten workers were sleeping. Curtis Hayes was badly cut by flying glass...
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...