Papers, 1952-1960.

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Papers, 1952-1960.

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Papers of a civil rights advocate concerning her membership in both the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., chapters of the Congress of Racial Equality, including scattered minutes, clippings, membership lists, and printed matter concerning lunch counter sit-ins, playground integration, supermarket employment, and the national CORE office.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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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...

Coleman, Mary.

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