Congress of Racial Equality records, 1944-1968.

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Congress of Racial Equality records, 1944-1968.

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The collection consists of records of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1944-1968. The records include the files of National Directors James Farmer and Floyd McKissick; files of the Associate National Director George Wiley; bookkeeping files; and records of the Community Relations, Organization, and Legal Depts. The materials document the administrative and civil rights activities of the CORE and its staff members as well as illustrating CORE's shift from non-violence to Black power and Black separatism.

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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...