Classification 157 (Civil Unrest) Case Files, 1957–1978
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006
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African American native of Hattiesburg, Miss. who served as a Field Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1964 on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ticket, was one of the leaders of the Congressional challenge to the Democratic representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives, member of the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and a lifelong human rights activist. From the descrip...