Madeleine McHugh article, 1964.

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Madeleine McHugh article, 1964.

An account of the attempts of the Committee of Federated Organizations and the Congress of Racial Equality to secure African-American farmer representation on the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Board in Mississippi.

5 p.

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Cornell University Library

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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...

Committee of Federated Organizations.

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McHugh, Madeleine.

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