SEDFRE--Legal Department files, COFO, Rita Schwerner, et al. vs. Rainey, L. C., et al., Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 (Deaths of COFO workers) (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 45, Folder 5)

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Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality

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The legal case brought by COFO, relatives of two murdered civil rights workers, and others against the sheriff and deputy sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi--where the men were killed--and other Mississippi law enforcement officials and white supremacy organizations, alleging a conspiracy to deny blacks their constitutional rights through a variety of means, especially terrorism, and asking for federal enforcement of, especially, the right to vote in Mississippi.

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