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...McComb is a town of about 12,000 in southwest Mississippi. This region has been the center of revitalized Ku Klux Klan activity and of the new Society for the Preservation of the White Race...
...history of the McComb COFO project really begins in July, 1961, when Robert Moses entered that area as a SNCC field secretary. Moses, a Negro from Harlem, had studied philosophy at Harvard Graduate School and taught mathematics at Horace Mann before he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
Local Negroes began sit-ins in McComb. The first attempt sent both participants to jail for 30 days. Fifteen-year-old Brenda Travis and five other high school students tried a second time, and Miss Travis was sentenced to one year in a state school for delinquents...
...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...