Elmer Rusco papers 1941-1969

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Elmer Rusco papers 1941-1969

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Elmer R. Rusco, a Kansas native and graduate of the University of Kansas, was an activist, author, and professor of political science, specializing in the civil rights movement, at the University of Nevada-Reno. This collection is comprised of material related to Rusco's participation in the civil rights movement as well as research regarding minority rights, conducted for the completion of his master's thesis.

1.5 linear ft (3 boxes)

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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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...

Rusco, Elmer R.

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Elmer R. Rusco received his academic training in political science. He attended the University of Kansas, receiving his B.A. in 1951, and his M.A. in 1952. He continued his schooling at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his Ph.D. in 1960. His doctoral dissertation entitled, Machine politics, California model : Arthur H. Samish and the alcoholic industry won the annual award of Western Political Science Association for 1961. He received a grant from the Eagleton Institute of Politic...