He [Gray] concluded, “In short, as regrettable as the cause may be, the fact remains that the violent reaction precipitated by the COFO program [Congress of Federated Programs] among one element of white Mississippians has in turn produced the first signs of a creative and constructive approach on the part of many responsible whites to the whole question of civil rights.
“I would emphasize that there has been only the slightest beginning and much of this, perhaps, only out of desperation, but I do think that much of what has happened, even if indirectly, has been the result of the summer program.”