Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and
Congress of Racial Equality.
In 1961, two groups of activists, consisting of blacks and whites, from the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), set off from Washington, D.C., on interstate bus lines bound for New Orleans, with the intention of provoking local segregation laws by riding, eating and lodging together.
Conner, Chairman of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)-Chicago, and Donna Major, Boston Field Coordinator for Second Amendment Sisters, are our guides through this 20-minute video that takes viewers through the racist history of gun control.
Zeldin was an ardent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, organizing a local chapter of the
Congress of Racial Equality and as a young mother often showed up for pickets and sit-ins with her kids in tow.
Civil rights activist organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) work together with Clark Terry, Max Roach, Thelonious Monk, and other musicians to promote their cause, raise funds, and present music that celebrates blackness.
The Wiley College team was trained by English professor Melvin Tolson and anchored by James Farmer Jr., later founder of the
Congress of Racial Equality. Take a little poetic license to replace USC with Harvard, and you have a classic David-defeats-Goliath tale that is Denzel Washing ton's movie The Great Debaters.
THE JULY/AUGUST LAWRENCE SUMMERS MEMORIAL AWARD * goes to Roy Innis, chair of the
Congress of Racial Equality, for comments made during his address to the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Resource Development Council for Alaska.
However, the Brooklyn chapter of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) questioned the reality of that reputation.
"What I'm proposing," Farmer, founder of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), answered without hesitation, "is that as a matter of policy in employment, we replace color blindness with color consciousness aimed at eliminating inequities based on color ...
Two years later he joined the
Congress of Racial Equality and worked in Tennessee with sharecroppers who had been displaced for registering to vote.
Some of these were the National Associational for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP), 1909; the Urban League, 1910; March On Washington Movement (MOWM), 1940-41;
Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE), 1972; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLS), 1957; Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960 and others.
--Niger Innis National Spokesman
Congress of Racial Equality