Bookkeeping files, 1953-1954, 1962-1966.

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Bookkeeping files, 1953-1954, 1962-1966.

The series consists of bookkeeping records of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) containing financial files (1953-1954) and personnel files (1962-1966). The records include invoices, memoranda, job descriptions, personnel rosters, telephone logs, employment applications, and resignations documenting the internal organization of CORE as well as CORE's collective bargaining agreement with the community and the Social Agency Employees Union.

1.25 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403418

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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...

Social Agency Employees Union.

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