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Celebrating Black History Month: How COFO helped the Mississippi civil rights movement
COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As the 1960s began, the struggle for freedom and equality was gaining momentum with ...
The Harvard Crimson9y
A Typical Week in Mississippi: COFO Hears of Many Incidents
The telephone at 1017 Lynch St., Jackson, Mississippi, receives calls 24 hours a day. Here the headquarters of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) keeps in touch with its "freedom ...
The Harvard Crimson6y
COFO Workers Help to Organize Miss. Freedom Democratic Party
Much of the effort of the COFO Mississippi Summer Project has been focussed in recent weeks on aiding the attempt of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to unseat the regular ...
The New Yorker1y
The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
(Today, Jackson businessmen need have no fear of COFO’s demonstrating in restaurants. As a matter of strategy, S.N.C.C. leaders prefer to keep the Mississippi conflict based on the most ...