SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 16, Folder 7)
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Council of Federated Organizations
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This folder provides some insight into the establishment of the various Freedom Summer projects, reveals the resistance they faced within Mississippi, and gives a glimpse into internal trouble that inevitably resulted from attempting such a massive undertaking. Highlights include the ""First Draft Report on the Mississippi Voter Registration Project,"" ""Progress and Problems of the COFO Community Centers,"" and the ""Staff Meeting on the Closing of the Jackson Office.""
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Correspondence Reports And Surveys Memoranda Form Newsletters Meeting Minutes Pamphlets
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- Adams, Jane
- Allen, Robinson, Jr
- Arson
- Baldwin, James
- Bates, Fred
- Bombings
- Bond, Julian
- Braden, Anne
- Braden, Carl
- Byrd, Robert
- Cameron, John
- Carr, James
- Chaffee, Lois
- Chaney, James
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Cobb, Charlie
- Community Centers
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Davis, Linda
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.). State Convention (1964)
- Devine, Annie
- Eastland, James O
- Economic Conditions
- Education
- Evars, Medgar
- Falk, Gail
- Farmers' League
- Forman, James
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Registration
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Schools
- Freedom Vote
- Fusco, Liz
- Goodman, Andrew
- Gray, Victoria Jackson
- Green, George
- Gregonis, Peter
- Hall, Carsie A
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Henry, Aaron E
- Hoover, J. Edgar
- Housing
- Houston, James M
- Humphrey, Hubert
- Jail Experiences
- Jails
- Johnson, Lyndon B
- Kennedy, John F
- King, Martin Luther, Jr
- Kirschenbaum, Howard
- Ku Klux Klan
- Lewis, John
- Libraries
- Mc Gee, Silas
- Medicare
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Student Union
- Moore, Phil
- Morris, Jesse
- Moses, Robert
- Murder
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Nonviolence
- Police
- Police Brutality
- Ridenour, Ronald
- Sayer, Mike
- Schwerner, Michael
- Schwerner, Nathan H
- Sclc
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Tillinghast, Muriel
- Unemployment
- United States
- United States Commission On Civil Rights
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Violence
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- White Citizens Councils
- Wilkins, Roy