Records, 1964-1966.

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Records, 1964-1966.

Records of a Ferriday, Louisiana, civil rights organization closely tied to the Congress of Racial Equality.

0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

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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...

Ferriday Freedom Movement (Ferriday, La.)

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