Leon DeMeunier papers 1960-1964 and 1971

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...

Congress of Racial Equality. Detroit (Mich.)

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DeMeunier, Leon.

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Leon A. DeMeunier was chairman of the Detroit Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from its establishment in 1960 until sometime in 1962 or 1963. He was also national council member and member of the executive committee of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the United States, a men and boy's organization of the Episcopal Church. As CORE officer, DeMeunier served as participant, organizer, and negotiator for his organization. In the forefront of civil rights protests in this period, CORE...