Word: mccombe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard senior and 12 other civil rights workers were arrested yesterday in McComb, Miss. as Mississippi's "Freedom Vote" project began...
...whom were working for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) during the Freedom Vote, were charged with serving food to McComb citizens in "Freedom House"--COFO headquarters in McComb. Bail on the 13 was set at $100 each...
Earlier this month President Johnson received three women from McComb, Miss., at the White House. They told him that their homes had been bombed because they had helped white civil rights workers during the summer and they asked him to help them. The President, they said, seemed to be near tears when they left, and he promised...
...good way to maintain your sense of the urgency of civil rights problems is to keep a copy of Howard Zinn's book handy. When you begin protesting that federal troops in McComb might cost Johnson votes in North Carolina, turn to a passage like this one, describing SNCC workers' attempts to feed would-be voters who had been waiting all day to register in Selma...
...McComb: A fourth white man arrested in connection with 11 bombings of Negro homes and churches...