Small Archive of Material Related to COFO and the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi
Jackson: COFO, [1964]. 'What is COFO?, Mississippi: Structure of the Movement and Present Operations. COFO Publication #6; Two page memorandum to Mississippi Freedom School Teachers regarding an Overview of Freedom Schools; One page memorandum to Mississippi Community Center Workers regarding an Overview of the Community Centers; Single sheet listing needed materials for the Mississippi [Freedom] Summer Project. Four items, all in very good condition with some expected handling wear. Provenance upon request. The Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 was a pivotal campaign in the Civil Rights Movement aimed at increasing African-American voter registration in the Deep South. Organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and other civil rights groups, the movement brought hundreds of volunteers—many of them young, white college students—to work alongside African-American activists in one of the most violently segregated states in America. Facing arrests, beatings, and even murder, including the infamous killings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, these activists persevered, setting up Freedom Schools and challenging systemic disenfranchisement. OCLC locates no physical copies of "What is COFO" and while the memorandums could be buried in other papers scattered among various institutions, in the trade, they are decidedly uncommon. Item #65892
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