Word: whaman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whaman said that the "tremendous demand "for Freedom Schools from Negroes throughout Mississippi had prompted COFO's decision to expand the program. "I don't think anyone expected the response we've gotten," he said...
...teachers are being recruited only in New York, Boston Philadelphia and Washington, according to Thomas Whaman, co-ordinator of the Freedom Schools. Ten people signed up in Washington on Wednerday. Whaman said, however, that it is too early to estimate whether COFO will reach its goal...
COFO had wanted to maintain a 5-1 student-teacher ratio, Whaman said, but so many Negroes have enrolled that the ratio is nearer 10-1. There are 200 teachers for the 1900 pupils in the state...
...short training session, beginning July 31, will be held in "an Eastern city," Whaman said; COFO officials are now negotiating or facilities. He said that Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, where the first group of volunteers aws trained, has already been engaged by another group...
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