National Director James Farmer files, 1960-1966.

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National Director James Farmer files, 1960-1966.

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The series consists of files of James Farmer from 1960-1966 particularly as National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1961-1966. The records include correspondence especially between other civil rights organizations, reports, memoranda, speeches, transcripts of Farmer's radio and television appearances, clippings, and printed material relating to CORE's evolving programs. The series documents CORE's extensive involvement in the New York metropolitan area including information on housing and job discrimination, police brutality, school integration, New York City politics, and rioting in urban areas. The series also contains information on the Freedom Riders, mainly through speeches and articles by Farmer; litigation involving the participants; and minutes, memoranda, and lists pertaining to the National Action Council.

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Farmer, James Leonard, Jr., 1920-1999

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Civil rights leader, author, labor organizer, and teacher, James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was born on January 12, 1920, in Marshall, Texas. He earned degrees from Wiley College (1938) and the Howard University School of Divinity (1940). Farmer went on to found the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which played a key role in the Civil Rights movement, particularly in launching the Freedom Rides in the summer of 1961. These bus rides tested the federal interstate transportation accommodations at bus t...

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. National Action Council.

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