SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 16, Folder 8)
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Council of Federated Organizations
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The bulk of this folder is composed of documents relating to Mississippi Freedom Summer; the remainder mainly details the Council of Federated Organizations' day-to-day operations. Highlights include the "Student Voice of True Light" and "Memories of Freedom School", which contain the first-hand accounts of students who participated in these programs.
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Reports And Surveys Pamphlets Memoranda Newspaper Clippings Correspondence Poems
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- Arrest
- Arson
- Bail
- Baker, Ella
- Bombings
- Brown, Joyce
- Cameron, John E
- Chaney, James
- Civil Rights
- Cobb, Charles
- Community Centers
- Council Of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
- Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Democratic Party (Miss.)
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Devine, Annie
- Donaldson, Ivanhoe
- Eastland, James Oliver
- Education
- Elections
- Emerson, Ruth
- Employment
- Forman, James
- Freedom Day
- Freedom Registration
- Freedom Schools
- Freedom Singers
- Freedom Vote
- Goodman, Andrew
- Gray, Victoria Jackson
- Guyot, Laurence
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Harris, Jesse
- Henry, Aaron
- Horwitz, Charles
- Housing
- Houston, James Monroe
- Intimidation
- Jails
- Johnson, Paul B
- Kennedy, Robert F
- Kirschenbaum, Howard
- Ku Klux Klan
- Lorenzi, Susan Sadoff
- Lynching
- Lynd, Staughton
- Maxwell, Bruce
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mississippi Student Union
- Moses, Robert
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- Police
- Police Brutality
- Ridenour, Ronald
- Schwerner, Michael
- Schwerner, Rita
- Seeger, Pete
- Smith, Roy
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Tougaloo College
- United States
- United States Commission On Civil Rights
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1957
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Department Of Justice
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Violence
- Volunteers
- Voter Registration
- Voting
- White Citizens Councils
- Zellner, Robert