 At a subsequent meeting in August, SCLC became part of COFO.In the Spring of 1962, with funds from the Voter Education Project, SNCC/COFO began voter registration organizing in the Mississippi Delta area around Greenwood, and the areas surrounding Hattiesburg, Laurel, and Holly Springs.As in McComb, their efforts were met with fierce oppositionarrests, beatings, shootings, arson, and murder.