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Council of Federated Organizations

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Meeting minutes from various COFO meetings make up the bulk of this folder, along with a few letters, reports, and forms. The minutes start with a January 1964 COFO meeting in Hattiesburg which discussed the outlines, logistics, and pros and cons of Freedom Summer. The next minutes come from a May 1964 staff conference where the persistent question about the group's structure arose, along with COFO's relationship to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, preparations for housing and orienting summer volunteers, the relationship between COFO and SNCC, and whether to locate COFO headquarters in Greenwood or in Jackson. COFO Executive Committee meeting minutes from July 10, 1964, discuss the handling of legal cases, COFO's structure and relationship to other civil rights organizations, plans for the convention challenge at the Democratic National Convention, and the roles that Martin Luther King might play in COFO. These minutes have the most outlandish ideas of the role that MLK migh
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Meeting Minutes Correspondence Reports And Surveys Forms
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Keywords

  1. Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
  2. Anderson, Fred
  3. Arrest
  4. Austen, J
  5. Bankhead, Lee
  6. Barnes, Sherry
  7. Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898 1987
  8. Beech, Robert, 1935 2008
  9. Bell, Emma
  10. Bender, Rita L
  11. Bernstein, Debbie
  12. Block, Sam
  13. Blue, Willie
  14. Bourn, B. F
  15. Boycotts
  16. Bradford, J
  17. Brown, Ed
  18. Brown, Joyce
  19. Carmichael, Stokely
  20. Carter, Hodding
  21. Chaffee, Lois
  22. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  23. Chase, Oscar
  24. Chinn, C. O
  25. Civil Rights
  26. Clergy
  27. Clothing And Dress
  28. Cobb, Charles E., Jr
  29. Collier, Choice
  30. Collier, James
  31. Communism
  32. Community Centers
  33. Congress Of Racial Equality
  34. Cotton, Mac Arthur
  35. Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
  36. Cox, Courtland, 1942
  37. Davis, Jesse
  38. Davison, Mary Ann
  39. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
  40. Democratic Party (Miss.)
  41. Dennis, Dave
  42. Donaldson, Ivanhoe
  43. Dyson, Georgiana
  44. Erskine, Doris
  45. Evans, Walter
  46. Evers, Charles, 1922
  47. Fairley, J. C
  48. Flowers, Dick
  49. Food Drives
  50. Forman, James, 1928 2005
  51. Freedom Day
  52. Frye, Richard
  53. Gillon, Gwendolyn
  54. Glenn, C
  55. Gordon, Deborah
  56. Gordon, Dorothy Faye
  57. Gordon, Evelyn
  58. Gordon, Ruthie May
  59. Grandison, Elvira
  60. Green, Freddy
  61. Greene, George
  62. Greene, Ophelia
  63. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  64. Hamer, Fannie Lou
  65. Hamlett, Ed, 1939
  66. Hampton, Nick
  67. Hansen, Bill
  68. Hardaway, Mayso
  69. Harris, Jesse
  70. Harvey, Harold
  71. Hayden, Casey
  72. Heinze, Fred
  73. Henry, Aaron, 1922 1997
  74. Hewitt, Theodis
  75. Hughes, Mathew
  76. Hutchings, Phil
  77. Jackson, Tyrone
  78. Jewett, Richard A
  79. Johnson, Idessa
  80. Jones, James
  81. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  82. Ku Klux Klan
  83. Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919 1995
  84. Ladner, Joyce A
  85. Lane, Mary
  86. Lawyers
  87. Leigh, Sanford
  88. Lewis, John
  89. Libraries
  90. Lombard, Rudy
  91. Long, Worth W
  92. Lynd, Staughton
  93. Lynd, Theron C
  94. Martin, Georgia
  95. Mass Media
  96. Mays, James
  97. Mc Dougald, Cornelia
  98. Mc Ghee, Willie
  99. Merritt, Carole
  100. Miller, Marjorie
  101. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  102. Mississippi Freedom Schools
  103. Moore, Mildred
  104. Morey, R. Hunter, 1940
  105. Morris, Jesse
  106. Moses, Dona Richards
  107. Moses, Robert Parris
  108. Music
  109. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  110. National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
  111. National Lawyers Guild
  112. Nicolaus, Victoria
  113. O'neill, Helen
  114. Palmer, Hazel T
  115. Palmer, Willie H
  116. Peters, James C
  117. Pigee, Vera Mae
  118. Pittman, James
  119. Plump, Robert
  120. Ponder, Annell
  121. Ponder, Preston
  122. Poor
  123. Poverty
  124. Pruitt, Jimmy
  125. Rauh, Joseph L., 1911
  126. Richardson, Gloria, 1922
  127. Rustin, Bayard, 1912 1987
  128. Salter, Jacqueline
  129. Salter, Jerry
  130. Salter, Loretta
  131. Samstein, Mendy
  132. Sayer, Michael
  133. Schools
  134. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  135. Schwerner, Nathan H
  136. Sellers, Cleveland, 1944
  137. Shaw, Willie
  138. Simpson, Euvester
  139. Sims, David
  140. Sims, Marshall
  141. Smith, D
  142. Smith, Douglas
  143. Smith, Frank
  144. Smith, Hazel Brannon
  145. Smith, Willie
  146. Social Classes
  147. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  148. Spencer, Howard
  149. Stafford, Billy
  150. Steptoe, E. W
  151. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  152. Suarez, Matteo
  153. Teachers
  154. Thomas, Eddie
  155. Thurmond, Lenora
  156. Tillinghast, Muriel
  157. Turnbow, Hartman
  158. Unemployment
  159. United States
  160. United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
  161. United States. Department Of Justice
  162. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  163. Voter Registration
  164. Voting
  165. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998
  166. Washington, George
  167. Watkins, Hollis, 1941
  168. Weaver, Claude
  169. White Citizens Councils
  170. White, Don
  171. Whites
  172. Wilkins, Roy, 1901 1981
  173. Williams, Avery
  174. Williams, Larry
  175. Women
  176. Young, Andrew, 1932
  177. Young, Raylavie
  178. Zinn, Howard, 1922 2010

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