Mississippi Civil Rights Project
History of the 82 counties
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Holly Springs Freedom School Project was located at the corner of 100 Rust Avenue and North Memphis Street and was referred to as Freedom House. It was the headquarters for the voter registration movement in north Mississippi and the headquarters of the local Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). It was also called the COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) house by some locals.
Sources:Lynch, John Roy. Facts of Reconstruction. Neale publishing: 1913.
David M. Callejo-Perez. Southern Hospitality: Identity, Schools, and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, 1964–1972. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
McMurry, Linda. To Keep the Waters Troubled. Oxford Press: 1998.
Campbell, Claire T. Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters From the South. 264 pp. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Levine, Ellen. Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. Penguin Putnam: 2000.