JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many people have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial ...

MS. He was at the office for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), when word arrived that Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner had gone missing. Today, he hopes to preserve buildings in ...

Last summer, civil rights activity in the South was focussed on Mississippi and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC and other groups. But because ...

The Council of Federated Organizations has begun a drive to recruit 100 more volunteers to teach a three-week session in Mississippi Freedom Schools, beginning Aug. 2. The new recruits will work ...