Celebrating Black History Month: How COFO helped the Mississippi civil rights movement
COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an ...
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COFO, Miss. Draw Battle Lines
COFO, the omnibus civil rights organization which is sponsoring a proposed two-month "invasion" of Mississippi by rights workers, has accepted about 800 voluteers, 38 from the University ...
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The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
One difference, of course, is that the Council of Federated Organizations, or COFO—the amalgam of civil-rights groups that runs the Summer Project—does not actually control even the part of ...
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Cops and COFO in Philadelphia
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.