The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans...
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Racial equality is when people of all races and ethnicities are treated in an egalitarian/equal manner. Racial equality occurs when institutions give...
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Roy Innis (category American people of United States Virgin Islands descent)
of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1968 until his death. One of his sons, Niger Roy Innis, serves as National Spokesman of the Congress of...
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James Farmer (category Members of the Democratic Socialists of America)
and Joe Guinn. It was later called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and was dedicated to ending racial segregation in the United States through...
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National Congress Uganda Ugandan People's Congress Iraqi National Congress National Congress of American Indians Congress of Racial Equality Continental...
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Leadership Conference, SCLC, was not active in New Orleans. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was the first activist group dedicated to non-violence...
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Bayard Rustin (category Members of the Socialist Party of America)
Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1943 Interracial workshop: progress report, New York: Sponsored by Congress of Racial Equality and Fellowship of Reconciliation...
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controversy before its original theatrical release, when the Congress of Racial Equality accused the film of being racist. When the film was released, Bryanston...
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Maulana Karenga (category American people convicted of assault)
the University of California, Los Angeles. He was active in the Black Power movement of the 1960s, joining the Congress of Racial Equality and Student Nonviolent...
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and a Manager of Media Relations with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Borelli was also a Senior Fellow with Project 21, a network of black conservatives...
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Michael Schwerner (category American people of Jewish descent)
activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers killed in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan...
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Elizabeth Harden Gilmore (category Girl Scouts of the USA people)
Scouting in West Virginia. After co-founding the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1958, she led CORE in a successful one-year-long...
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George Houser (category Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo)
co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 in Chicago. With Bayard Rustin, another FOR staffer, Houser co-led the Journey of Reconciliation...
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Seattle movement (category Events of the civil rights movement)
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In Seattle, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) initiated the Drive for Equal Employment in...
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Wally Nelson (category Members of the Civilian Public Service)
field organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. For their role as civil rights activists, they received the Courage of Conscience Award from The...
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Bernie Sanders (category Independent members of the United States House of Representatives)
in 1964. While a student, he was a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)...
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co-founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. As an activist Fisher headed a cell with the Fellowship of Reconciliation...
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Floyd McKissick (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
University of North Carolina School of Law. In 1966 he became leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, taking over from James Farmer. A supporter of Black...
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James Chaney (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan...
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Andrew Goodman (activist) (category University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni)
rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964...
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Eric Mann (category Members of Students for a Democratic Society)
whose career spans more than 50 years. He has worked with the Congress of Racial Equality, Newark Community Union Project, Students for a Democratic Society...
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Jim Crow laws (redirect from Period of Jim Crow)
ramifications. Racial integration of all-white collegiate sports teams was high on the Southern agenda in the 1950s and 1960s. Involved were issues of equality, racism...
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William Lewis Moore (redirect from Murder of William Lewis Moore)
23, 1963) was a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) member who staged lone protests against racial segregation. He was assassinated in...
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Freedom Riders (redirect from List of Freedom Riders)
white mobs attack them without intervention. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored most of the subsequent Freedom Rides, but some were also...
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and educator, significantly in the area of civil rights. She was the editor of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) publications Rights and Reviews and...
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Alton Wayne Roberts (category People convicted of depriving others of their civil rights)
murders. He was the one who fatally shot two of the victims, Congress of Racial Equality civil rights activists Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman....
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Bob Adelman (category Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality in the early 1960s, a position which granted him access to key leaders of the Civil Rights Movement...
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by Gillespie's booking agency as a joke, but proceeds went to Congress of Racial Equality and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference headed by Martin...
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clergyman pacifist and social activist who helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). Jack...
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associated with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and its member organization, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). They had been working...
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