Civil Rights Giant James Farmer Dies / One of the `Big Four,' he founded the Congress on Racial Equality
New York Times James Farmer, a principal founder of the Congress of Racial Equality and the last survivor of the "Big Four" who shaped the civil-rights struggle in the United States in the mid-1950s and '60s, ...
Frank Thomas
As a seminarian, Skip built houses in Puerto Rico and volunteered with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
Jeffrey Dickemann
Dickemann took a teaching job at the University of Kansas, where she helped found a chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and spent the spring and summer of 1965 with a group of CORE volunteers registering voters in Louisiana.
Michael Lesser
While at Syracuse he helped form a local chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and actively fought housing segregation in the school dorms and surrounding community.
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The Big Five consisted of Lewis, the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins, Congress of Racial Equality leader James Farmer, the Urban League’s Whitney Young, and, of course, the Rev.
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Ussery, who turned 90 in 2018, was once a national officer for the Congress of Racial Equality.
David Kramer
., David needed more fulfillment and decided to quit Ford and join the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Detroit where he picketed, agitated for integration and equal employment.
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., church bombing, the 27-year-old San Franciscan joins the Congress of Racial Equality. ... He joins the nascent group, and as millions across the country protest the Vietnam War and racial injustice, Cox and ...
Kenneth Scudder
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., John Gaines and Mack Workman — were led by Thomas Gaither, who came to town as an activist with the Congress of Racial Equality.
Wyatt Tee Walker — Dr. King’s strategist and Harlem leader, dies at 88
Walker preached against intolerance and racial inequality for six decades from pulpits across the South, in New York City and on five of the world’s seven continents. ... In Petersburg, he served as president ...
Joanne Heffelfinger
Upon passing the California bar exam, Joanne became active in the civil rights movement, both with the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), and later with the YWCA.
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., after he was arrested at an antisegregation demonstration organized by the Congress of Racial Equality, Mr. ... Two years later, after being branded an obstructionist and a racial provocateur, he lost a recall vote.
A good day to sit around a police car
Turned out the guy in the police car had been arrested for refusing to show his ID when they asked him to stop passing out literature at the CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) table.
Photographer Bob Adelman: bearing witness
Martin Luther King Jr. as he spoke of his dream of racial harmony; he was at the funeral of Malcolm X; he was at the lunch counters and sit-ins; and he was at Selma. ... Between 1963 and 1968, Adelman was a ...
Lyon’s truth-filled images at the de Young
(Similarly, Adelman volunteered to shoot for the Congress of Racial Equality).
Rep. John Lewis continues civil rights fight
His history makes him the closest thing to a moral voice in the divided Congress. ... The SNCC and Congress of Racial Equality - CORE - refused to sign a statement calling for a moratorium on action protests until after the November election.
Jerrie Meadows
In the early '60s Jerrie joined the Civil Rights movement, working as the office manager for the Congress of Racial Equality.
Rev. George Houser, civil and human rights activist, dies
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Event to salute apartheid foe
The Santa Rosa resident also founded the American Committee on Africa, one of the earliest organizations against apartheid, as well as founding - with James Farmer and Bernice Fisher - the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942.