Congress of Racial Equality records, 1962-1965.

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Congress of Racial Equality records, 1962-1965.

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Mimeographed correspondence, minutes of meetings of the National Action Council, reports, some financial data, printed pamphlets, and issues of the newsletter, CORElator, documenting activities of the Congress of Racial Equality. Most concern discrimination nationally, particularly housing, police relations, and in restaurants. The few papers of the Twin Cities chapter deal mainly with alleged discrimination against three black teachers in the Minneapolis public schools.

0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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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...

Congress of Racial Equality. Twin Cities Chapter.

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Neubeck, Ralph Joseph, 1941-

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