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...twelve-car motorcade pulled away from the COFO office in Philadelphia Miss. on Monday and headed for the Neshoba County courthouse, carrying four COFO workers and 39 local Negro citizens who wanted to register...
When cars arrived and prospective registrants piled out, they were escorted up the court-house steps by Neshoba county sheriff Lawrence Rainey and deputy sheriff Cecil Price, both of whom were recently indicted for depriving Philadelphia Negroes of their civil rights...
Such cooperation between civil rights workers and local law officers is new in Neshoba County. Last June three COFO workers were-murdered after being held in jail for six hours on a speeding charge. Recently, five law enforcement officers (Rainey, Price, two policemen and a former sheriff) were arrested and indicted by a Federal grand jury for beating six Philadedphia Negroes, and thus violating their civil rights...
...uneasy truce has existed in Neshoba County ever since COFO set up its Philadelphia project in late August. Plans for establishing an office earlier in the summer were postponed after the three workers were murdered there...
Seven COFO workers--all male, for the area is considered too dangerous for girls--are now operating in Neshoba, doing voter and Freedom registration and organizing a farmers' league for the local Negroes, most of whom support themselves by farming and sharecropping. In September, COFO workers drove a bookmobile around the county, reading books and telling stories to the children who gathered round. Now, however, the bookmobile has been replaced by freedom school classes, which began Wednesday in the bottom of the COFO office. The Freedom School shares the office, a former hotel, with a 600-book library, the voter...