COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...

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 ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Lectures examining the Civil Rights Movement from Brown v ... 1960-63 Freedom Riders, 1961 Council of Federated Organizations, 1962 The Albany Movement, 1961-1967 The March on Washington, 1963 The ...

or COFO. The civil rights movement, even in its early phases, never was solely focused on segregation. It always included a push for economic justice. Without full access to the American economy ...

Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...

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