• The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans...
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  • Racial equality is when people of all races and ethnicities are treated in an egalitarian/equal manner. Racial equality occurs when institutions give...
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    Roy Innis (category American people of United States Virgin Islands descent)
    of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1968 until his death. One of his sons, Niger Roy Innis, serves as National Spokesman of the Congress of...
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    James Farmer (category Members of the Democratic Socialists of America)
    and Joe Guinn. It was later called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and was dedicated to ending racial segregation in the United States through...
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    National Congress Uganda Ugandan People's Congress Iraqi National Congress National Congress of American Indians Congress of Racial Equality Continental...
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  • controversy before its original theatrical release when the Congress of Racial Equality accused the film of being racist. When the film was released, Bryanston...
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    Bayard Rustin (category Members of the Socialist Party of America)
    Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1943 Interracial workshop: progress report, New York: Sponsored by Congress of Racial Equality and Fellowship of Reconciliation...
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    white mobs attack them without intervention. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored most of the subsequent Freedom Rides, but some were also...
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    Seattle movement (category History of African-American civil rights)
    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In Seattle, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) initiated the Drive for Equal Employment in...
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    Maulana Karenga (category American people convicted of assault)
    the University of California, Los Angeles. He was active in the Black Power movement of the 1960s, joining the Congress of Racial Equality and Student Nonviolent...
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    Michael Schwerner (category American people of Jewish descent)
    activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers killed in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan...
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    James Chaney (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan...
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    Floyd McKissick (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    University of North Carolina School of Law. In 1966 he became leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, taking over from James Farmer. A supporter of Black...
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  • George Houser (category Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo)
    co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 in Chicago. With Bayard Rustin, another FOR staffer, Houser co-led the Journey of Reconciliation...
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  • Wally Nelson (category Members of the Civilian Public Service)
    field organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. For their role as civil rights activists, they received the Courage of Conscience Award from The...
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  • 23, 1963) was a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) member who staged lone protests against racial segregation. He was assassinated in...
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    Sit-in movement (category History of African-American civil rights)
    similar to the future Greensboro sit-ins. The local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality had had similar success. Witnessing the unprecedented visibility...
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  • Eric Mann (category Members of Students for a Democratic Society)
    whose career spans more than 50 years. He has worked with the Congress of Racial Equality, Newark Community Union Project, Students for a Democratic Society...
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  • ramifications. Racial integration of all-white collegiate sports teams was high on the Southern agenda in the 1950s and 1960s. Involved were issues of equality, racism...
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    the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who recruited individuals and formed...
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    Andrew Goodman (activist) (category University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni)
    rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964...
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  • Elizabeth Harden Gilmore (category Girl Scouts of the USA people)
    Scouting in West Virginia. After co-founding the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1958, she led CORE in a successful one-year-long...
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  • Leadership Conference, SCLC, was not active in New Orleans. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was the first activist group dedicated to non-violence...
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    Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks (category African-American history of Alabama)
    to enforce it. To challenge this, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organized for an interracial group of volunteers – whom they dubbed "Freedom...
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  • Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and a board member of the National Rifle Association of America. Myrtle Whitmore - Commissioner of the New...
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    associated with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and its member organization, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). They had been working...
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  • suspension, but they are ordered reinstated. January 31 – Members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and nine students are arrested in Rock Hill, South...
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  • co-founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. As an activist Fisher headed a cell with the Fellowship of Reconciliation...
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    Alton Wayne Roberts (category People convicted of depriving others of their civil rights)
    murders. He was the one who fatally shot two of the victims, Congress of Racial Equality civil rights activists Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman....
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    passionate interest in civil rights, headed the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and led a restaurant sit-in in Sewanee, Tennessee...
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