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The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) was a coalition of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations operating in Mississippi. COFO was formed in 1961 to coordinate and unite voter registration and other civil rights activities in the state and oversee the distribution of funds from the Voter Education Project.
Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer (sometimes referred to as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project), was a campaign launched by American civil rights activists in June 1964 to register as many African-American voters as possible in the state of Mississippi. Black people in the state had been largely ...
Elections at the Mississippi Secretary of State official website; Mississippi at Ballotpedia; Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Mississippi", Voting & Elections Toolkits "Mississippi: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links", Vote.org, Oakland, CA "League of Women Voters of Mississippi".
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All U.S. states and territories, except North Dakota, require voter registration by eligible citizens before they can vote in federal, state and local elections. In North Dakota, cities in the state may register voters for city elections, [1] and in other cases voters must provide identification and proof of entitlement to vote at the polling place before being permitted to vote.
An attendee at the Freedom Ride for Voting Rights bus tour in Jackson, Miss., on Juneteenth, June 19, 2021. ... to the people of Mississippi,” Lamar told Yahoo News. “The city has failed ...
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (the "Motor Voter" law) required state governments to either provide uniform opt-in registration services through drivers' license registration centers, disability centers, schools, libraries, and mail-in registration, or to allow voter registration on Election Day, where voters can register at ...