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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 from Harvard Give Reports and Opinions of Mississippi
A politely curious but unemotional audience last night heard three students discuss their summer's experience working with COFO in Mississippi. One of the major issues discussed was the place of ...
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 ...