Founded in 1942 by activists including James Farmer, CORE had a storied reputation in the movement for racial equality. Its members had aided protesters who led the sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch ...

Movement leaders at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian Leadership Coalition (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) saw that nonviolent direct ...

IN JANUARY 1955. MORGAN STUDENTS, ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY, WERE WAITING AT LEXINGTON AND HOWARD FOR A BUS. IT WAS BITTERLY COLD OUT. THEY ENTERED READS SEEKING WARMTH.

At 21, she joined the local chapter of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, co-founded by Rudy Lombard and Oretha Castle Haley. In 1961, Rosemond became a freedom rider, risking her life as she ...

Demonstrators organized by the Congress of Racial Equality protest outside the White House in June 1963 after the death of Medgar Evers. (Warren K. Leffler/ Library of Congress) (Library of ...