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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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Keywords

  1. Adams, Jane
  2. Allen, Robinson, Jr
  3. Arson
  4. Baldwin, James
  5. Bates, Fred
  6. Bombings
  7. Bond, Julian
  8. Braden, Anne
  9. Braden, Carl
  10. Byrd, Robert
  11. Cameron, John
  12. Carr, James
  13. Chaffee, Lois
  14. Chaney, James
  15. Civil Rights
  16. Civil Rights Workers
  17. Cobb, Charlie
  18. Community Centers
  19. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  20. Davis, Linda
  21. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  22. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  23. Democratic Party (Miss.). State Convention (1964)
  24. Devine, Annie
  25. Eastland, James O
  26. Economic Conditions
  27. Education
  28. Evars, Medgar
  29. Falk, Gail
  30. Farmers' League
  31. Forman, James
  32. Freedom Day
  33. Freedom Registration
  34. Freedom Rides
  35. Freedom Schools
  36. Freedom Vote
  37. Fusco, Liz
  38. Goodman, Andrew
  39. Gray, Victoria Jackson
  40. Green, George
  41. Gregonis, Peter
  42. Hall, Carsie A
  43. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  44. Henry, Aaron E
  45. Hoover, J. Edgar
  46. Housing
  47. Houston, James M
  48. Humphrey, Hubert
  49. Jail Experiences
  50. Jails
  51. Johnson, Lyndon B
  52. Kennedy, John F
  53. King, Martin Luther, Jr
  54. Kirschenbaum, Howard
  55. Ku Klux Klan
  56. Lewis, John
  57. Libraries
  58. Mc Gee, Silas
  59. Medicare
  60. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  61. Mississippi Student Union
  62. Moore, Phil
  63. Morris, Jesse
  64. Moses, Robert
  65. Murder
  66. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  67. Nonviolence
  68. Police
  69. Police Brutality
  70. Ridenour, Ronald
  71. Sayer, Mike
  72. Schwerner, Michael
  73. Schwerner, Nathan H
  74. Sclc
  75. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  76. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  77. Tillinghast, Muriel
  78. Unemployment
  79. United States
  80. United States Commission On Civil Rights
  81. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  82. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  83. Violence
  84. Volunteers
  85. Voter Registration
  86. White Citizens Councils
  87. Wilkins, Roy

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