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 ...
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 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 ...
The Harvard Crimson7y
Cops and COFO in Philadelphia
Philadelphia COFO workers had not thought on Sunday evening ... But with most Negroes barred from juries in Mississippi the prospects for such conviction seem dim. The five arrested men never ...