Congress+on+Racial+Equality

Civil Rights The Congress of Racial Equality is also known as CORE, which is an American Civil rights organization that was nonviolent. They would do things like sit-ins, jail-ins and Freedom Rides. It was founded in 1942 and back then it was known as the Committee of Racial Equality by a group of interracial students in Chicago, Illinois. Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi influenced the founders of CORE. CORE’s early growth consisted of mostly white middle-class college students from the Midwest. Through a sit-in and picket lines, CORE had success in Integrating Northern public facilities in 1940’s, with that success they wanted to have a national impact so they had to strengthen the national organization. Then in 1947 eight white and eight black men went into the upper South to test a ruling of the Supreme Court, which they saw was unconstitutional. In 1954 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision CORE came back from several years of decline. Then a year later they helped with the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama with the fact that it would be a nonviolent direct action. After the boycott and when as the Civil Rights Movement came up, CORE took its energy to the South. Once in the South the group was mostly made of poorer and less educated African Americans. By 1963 things were shifting to the segregation in the North and West and trying to build their credibility as a black protest organization. CORE endorsed the term Black Power in 1966. []

James Farmer founded Congress of Racial Equality, which is a civil rights organization in Chicago. They fought to promote better race relation and end racial discrimination in the U.S. CORE was able to gain national recognition by sponsoring the Freedom Rides in 1961. They were also one of the sponsors of the 1963 civil rights march on Washington.

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CORE aims to bring equality for all people regardless of race, sex, age, and disability, ECT. CORE works to identify and expose acts of discrimination in the public and private sectors of society. This is a national membership organization that is determined to make Equality a Reality for all people through politics, economics, cultural, educational and social justice to form unification of all American citizens. CORE has a national headquarter in New York City, but they have locations in the United States, Africa and in other parts of the world. This is also an open membership, it’s for anyone who believes that people are created equal and will work toward equality throughout the world. CORE’s first national director was James Farmer and he served as an Under-Secretary of Labor for President Richard Nixon. CORE was the first rights organization in the country to get a award of special non-governmental consultative status (NGO) at the United Nations. They were also the first Black Organization in the U.S. History to draft a bill that got introduced into Congress.

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