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These are two journal articles on St. Louis CORE and an offshoot group of the chapter, ACTION (Action Committee to Improve Opportunities for Negroes). The articles, "Black Power on the Ground: Continuity and Rupture in St. Louis" and "Between Civil…

This is a .pdf version of Prof. Hugh Wilford's book "The Mighty Wurlitzer : How The CIA Played America" (click on the image to bring it up).

I am posting it here because recently Dr. Wesley Muhammed, PhD, of the Nation of Islam did a…

This is Rhonda Y. Williams' essay on CORE's Target City project - "The Pursuit of Audacious Power Rebel Reformers and Neighborhood Politics in Baltimore, 1966-1968". It is taken from the collection "Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local…

This is a photo of the director of Target City in Baltimore Walter Brooks (center, Black male, cigarette) and Baltimore CORE member Danny Gant (center, Black male, bald head). Gant and Brooks were both heads of CORE's Target City project at different…

This is a 1973 photo of Syracuse CORE member Wretha Wiley walking with her children. Wiley was the wife of CORE associate director Dr. George Wiley and the mother of 2020 NYC mayoral candidate Maya Wiley seen in the left side of the photo holding her…

This is a photo of San Francisco CORE chairman Bill Bradley. He was arrested for picketing the Sheraton- Palace Hotel as part of a campaign against its 'discriminatory hiring practices'. (google.com)

He has since changed his name to Oba…

This is a photo of Ruth Turner Perot, executive secretary for Cleveland CORE before she and her husband Tony Perot went on to work for the national office. Both were members of the National Action Commitee.
"The first lady of Black Power", not…

This is a photo of New Orleans CORE chairman Oretha Castle. One of the chapter's founding members, she was also part of landmark 1
case, Lombard, et al v. Louisiana, after being arrested during the chapter's demonstration against Woolworth's…

This is a photo of members of New Orleans CORE including many of its original members.
Left to Right - George Raymond, Carlene Smith, Thomas Valentine, Jill Finsten, Doratha Smith, Jean Thompson, Patricia Smith, Alice Thompson, _______, Betty…

"A member of a sign-carrying civil rights delegation denied entrance to the convention of Wisconsin Republicans at the Milwaukee Arena sits on the floor of the main corridor in protest on May 23, 1964. Delegates and visitors milled around Mrs. Lee…