Turbulent Times

        The (COFO) Council of Federated Organizations was creted in 1962 by local civil rights activists who joined forces with the SNCC, NAACP, SCLC, and CORE representatives. In the fall of 1963, COFO launched a project called Freedom Vote, which gave blacks parties in registering and voting, and therefore making the Mississippi and Federal government know that blacks wanted to vote, even though there might be no actions token whatsoever. The organization ran a mock election parallel to the gubernatorial race.
The COFO launched another project in the fall of 1963, which is the Mississippi Freedom Summer project. It dealt with hundreds of volunteer student s form every state to help encourage Mississippi's black neighborhoods to register and support the Freedom Party candidates. Unlike the Freedom Vote project, Freedom Summer was designed to register blacks for a real election the 1964 presidential election.