Documents Tagged ‘Congress On Racial Equality (CORE)’
Benjamin Alexander, Black Activist, Remembers CORE
Archive Entry Date: 1991
A detailed, intimate account of the interracial alliance behind CORE's sit-ins
Inter-Racial Committee Pickets 6 Restaurants
Archive Entry Date: 06/15/1946
Restaurant managers boasted defiantly of improved sales after Bradley University's CORE chapter picketed their establishments
Letter from Hazel Pritcher to George Houser
Archive Entry Date: 06/03/1946
CORE broadened its fight for racial justice by taking on a high school's staging of a blackface minstrel show
Letter from Dick Trotter to George Houser
Archive Entry Date: 07/21/1945
Its membership growing, Peoria's CORE aimed to desegregate public pools as well as local restaurants
Letter from Dick Trotter to George Houser
Archive Entry Date: 05/16/1945
"Sit-down strikes" in eating establishments were the first protests organized by Peoria's CORE chapter