Administrative files, 1961-1968.

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Administrative files, 1961-1968.

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The subseries consists of administrative files of Congress of Racial Equality's (CORE) Community Relations Dept. from 1961-1968. The files include correspondence, memoranda, reports, and mailing lists. Materials document CORE's efforts to organize community centers in southern states; the CORE Scholarship, Education, and Defense Fund; voter registration; trials and bond hearings for those arrested during the Freedom Rides (1961); the National Action Council; and CORE publications. Correspondents include Lillian Smith, Richard Haley, and other CORE staff members. The subseries also contains a complete run of correspondence for the Dept.'s two directors Marvin Rich and Alan Gartner.

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Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966

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"Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. From as early as the 1930s, she argued that Jim Crow was evil ("Segregation is spiritual lynching," she said) and that it leads to social moral retardation."--"Lillian Smith (1897-1966)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 18, 2008: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. From the descri...

Congress of Racial Equality. National Action Council.

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Gartner, Alan

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Congress of Racial Equality. Community Relations Dept.

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In 1942, the Fellowship of Reconciliation developed an interracial civil rights organization committed to nonviolent direct action and adopted the name Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). CORE established chapters in northern and western states throughout the 1940s, focusing primarily on desegregation of public facilities. During the 1950s, CORE groups formed in the southern and border states with primarily Black membership. By 1966, CORE's official policy shifted to Black power and...

Rich, Marvin A.

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Haley, Richard, 1934-

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