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Zinn --Mississippi Summer Project, 1964 (Howard Zinn Papers, 1956-1994; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 588, Box 2, Folder 6)

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Most of the documents in this file concern COFO leaders' anticipation that Freedom Summer activities would spark white resistance and violence. It includes a list of students from New England who would be traveling to work in Mississippi during the summer of 1964; letters between Arthur Waskow and Staughton Lynd regarding freedom schools and ways to persuade the federal government to protect Freedom Summer volunteers; a memo from Bob Moses to prominent civil rights leaders and entertainers asking them to participate in a COFO demonstration in Washington, D.C. in June 1964; a COFO press release on plans for Freedom Summer, which recognizes that its activities will probably be accompanied by violence; a memo from Howard Zinn to Bob Moses on how to minimize violence during Freedom Summer; a letter to President Lyndon Johnson from COFO asking for federal protection during Freedom Summer; a letter to the editor of the New Republic by Staughton Lynd on his concerns for the "Mississippi Peace
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