National Director Floyd McKissick files, 1960-1968.

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National Director Floyd McKissick files, 1960-1968.

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The series consists of papers of Floyd McKissick from 1960-1968 documenting his involvement in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and his tenure as National Director (1966-1968). The papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, articles by McKissick, printed material, and clippings documenting CORE's involvement in urban issues and its shift towards Black separatism and Black power. Of particular interest are materials pertaining to discrimination in housing, education, and employment in the New York Metropolitan area; CORE's participation in the Baltimore Target City Project (1966), and internal memoranda reflecting policy decisions made by CORE during McKissick's tenure.

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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...

McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991

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Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991) was born in Asheville, N.C. He was an attorney, businessman, and civil rights leader. McKissick married Evelyn Williams, with whom he had four children: Joycelyn; Andree; Floyd, Jr.; and Charmaine. From the description of Floyd B. McKissick papers, 1940s-1980s. WorldCat record id: 39668375 Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991), the son of Ernest Boyce and Magnolia Thompson McKissick, was born in Asheville, N.C., on 9 March 1922. He earned...