| Session 1 1/12/99 | Early life &
background; World War II; Black cops in Harlem; Civil rights in New York;
early activism; Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR); Nonviolent activism;
housing segregation in Chicago; CORE founding & early history;
Conscientious Objector & civilian public service camps; National
Federation of the Commitees of Racial Equality; Talladega College. Years: 1930, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 |
| Session 2
1/20/99 | Early life and family; Fordham College; Coumbia College;
Spanish Civil War; University of Chicago; Fellowship House; White City;
Founding of CORE & early history; War Without Violence; Gandhi; the Journey of
Reconciliation. Years: 1918, 1930, 1943, 1946, 1947 |
| Session 3
2/3/99 | Race-relations cell of FOR; Chicago & nascent CORE group;
White City; teaching at Talladega College; Pappenheim; the Civilian Public
Service camp. Years: 1943, 1944, 1945 |
| Session 4
2/9/99 | New York CORE meetings; New York; CORE suffers violence;
violent demonstrations & expansion of CORE; CORE parties; YMCA segregation;
CORE work; marriage to Dorothy; National CORE; St. Louis CORE; Fundraising;
King and Ghandi's influence. Years: 1955, 1960, 1961 |
| Session 5
2/12/99 | King & nonviolence; Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Commitee (SNCC); CORElator; Brown vs. the Board of Education; Communism
& MacCarthy period; fair housing; expansion of CORE. Years: 1954, 1955, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1957 |
| Session 6
2/19/99 | Richard Wright & Communist Party; Palisades project;
CORElator; National Action Commitee meetings; marriage to Barbara; first North
Carolina sit-ins; Woolworth boycott; traveling abroad with Barbara; Freedom
Ride; Desintegration of CORE. Years:1956; 1957,1959, 1960, 1964 |
| Session 7
2/26/99 | Arlene Wilkes; CORE administration; leaving CORE; conflicts with
other members of CORE; students sit-ins; Satyagraha, Ghandi &
nonviolence. Years: 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962 |
| Session 8
3/8/99 | Activism & communism in the 1950's; sit-ins & media
coverage; CORE's budget in 1950's; CORE administration; CORE fundraising. Years: 1945, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1958 |
| Session 9
3/8/99 | CORE finances in 1940's; the Journey of Reconciliation; Jim
Peck & CORElator; CORE fundraising; Montgomery bus boycott & Martin
King; Marriage to Barbara; Woolworth boycott &
sit-ins; Conflicts with other CORE members; SNCC and the Freedom
rides. Years: 1943, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959,1960, 1961 |
| Session 10
3/25/99 | CORE office & conflits among staff; student sit-ins;
Freedom Rides & violence; SNCC; American Committee on Africa; Harold Oram
Organization. Years: 1958,1959,1960,1961,1964, |
See also Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) for web links.
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