Council of Federated Organizations

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civil rights coalition voter registration organization

The Council of Federated Organizations was a coalition of major civil rights groups in Mississippi that coordinated voter registration and activism efforts during the early 1960s.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil rights coalition ⓘ voter registration organization ⓘ
activeIn	Mississippi ⓘ
activity	community organizing ⓘ political education ⓘ voter registration ⓘ
aimedAt	challenging Jim Crow laws in Mississippi ⓘ ending Black disenfranchisement in Mississippi ⓘ
basedOnPrinciple	nonviolent direct action ⓘ
collaboratedWith	Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ⓘ
coordinated	civil rights fieldwork in Mississippi ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dissolved	mid-1960s ⓘ
field	civil rights ⓘ voting rights ⓘ
focus	African American voting rights in Mississippi ⓘ
foundedBy	Congress of Racial Equality ⓘ NAACP ⓘ surface form: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⓘ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ
hasMember	Congress of Racial Equality ⓘ NAACP ⓘ surface form: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⓘ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ
historicalContext	U.S. civil rights movement in the 1960s ⓘ
locatedIn	Mississippi ⓘ
location	Mississippi ⓘ
notableProject	Mississippi voter registration campaign ⓘ support for Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ⓘ
opposedBy	segregationist authorities in Mississippi ⓘ white supremacist organizations in Mississippi ⓘ
organized	Freedom Summer ⓘ
partOf	American civil rights movement ⓘ
purpose	coordinate civil rights activities in Mississippi ⓘ coordinate voter registration drives in Mississippi ⓘ support grassroots organizing in Mississippi ⓘ
regionServed	Mississippi River Delta region ⓘ surface form: Mississippi Delta rural Mississippi counties ⓘ
significantEvent	Freedom Summer ⓘ
startTime	1962 ⓘ
timePeriod	early 1960s ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Freedom Summer → hasAssociatedOrganization → Council of Federated Organizations ⓘ

Jackson Movement (1960s civil rights campaign) → hasParticipant → Council of Federated Organizations ⓘ

subject surface form: Jackson Movement