Word: mississippi
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After that, some of the volunteers will probably remain in Washington, doing community organizing and working for home rule. Many of the others--perhaps 500 in all--will head south, about 400 to Mississippi, 50 to Arkansas, and a handful to projects in Southwest Georgia, Alabama, and Cambridge, Md. Details on the exact nature of each project and the number of volunteers needed are still vague, and are now being worked out by "people's conventions," meetings of local Negroes in each area. Most projects will probably include community centers, freedom schools, and voter registration drives...
Although lobbying for the challenge is open to all, students who were in Mississippi last summer will receive preference in going south later. All volunteers will be expected to be self-supporting. For further information, applications, and interviews, contact: SNCC 1555 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge...
...prodded by the gains of the Mississippi Project, SCLC is planning a ten-week summer program this year which may transform the organization. Its Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE) aims to send some 600 volunteers into about 70 rural Black Belt and urban counties in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to conduct programs in voter registration, adult literacy, and political education...
Only Berkeley sent more volunteers than Harvard on last summer's COFO project in Mississippi. At present, however, it appears that very few Harvard students will be working in the South this summer. This is not because enthusiasm for civil rights has fallen off appreciably here but because of the decision, and indecisiveness, of the civil rights groups themselves both nationally and on campus...
SNCC, which lead the COFO coalition, has deliberately avoided mass recruitment of Northerners for Southern work. The group decided early this year to emphasize Negro initiative at the local level and to turn recruitment over to individual community projects throughout Mississippi. Many of last year's volunteers will certainly be invited back, and anyone is free to sign up now for consideration by the local leaders. But the invitation procedure will be much more quiet and less glamorous than last year's drive...