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photo of Jerome Smith, Doris Jean Castle and Juila Aaron, New Orleans CORE
This is a photo of New Orleans CORE members Jerome Smith, Juila Aaron and Doris Jean Castle (left to right) standing on Canal street in New Orleans. Standing all the way to the right is Reverend Avery Alexander,
photo of Freedom Riders Jerome Smith and Edward Blankenheim
This is a photo of New Orleans CORE chairman Jerome Smith (Black) and CORE field secretary Edward Blankenheim (White) as Freedom Riders.
photo of Freedom Riders James Farmer, Rev. Joseph Randall, Rabbi Sidney S. Shaken and John C. Harvard
"James Farmer, second from left, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, joins hands with three Freedom Riders in Newark, N.J. From left. Rev. Joseph Randall of Newark, Rabbi Sidney S. Shaken of Cranford and John C. Harvard of…
photo of Freedom Riders James Farmer, Edward Blankenheim, Genevieve Hughes, Rev. B. Elton Cox and Henry Thomas
"Members of an interracial group pose in Washington, with a map of a route they plan to take to test segregation in bus terminal restaurants and rest rooms in the South, May 4, 1961. From left are: Edward Blankenheim, Tucson, Ariz.; James Farmer, New…
photo of Floyd McKissick, CORE national director, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Dr. Martin Luther King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, tells news conference that he and his organization support a boycott of the Olympic games by African American athletes in New York, Dec. 14, 1967. At left is Floyd…
photo of Eugene Young at 1963 CORE national conference
"Eugene Young, 13, Jackson, Miss., displays a copy of the Congressional Record in which testimony he gave about police brutality in Jackson is recorded. Gene is in Kansas City on July 3, 1964 attending the convention of the Congress of Racial…
photo of Doris Jean Castle
This is a 1963 photo of New Orleans CORE member Doris Jean Castle being removed by police from a demonstration at the local City Hall.
photo of demonstration at 1964 CORE national convention (3)
"Members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), in Kansas City on July 3, 1964 for a national convention, crowd into the Hotel Muehlebach barber shop just after word was received of President Lyndon B. Johnson's signing the Civil Rights Bill. One…
photo of demonstration at 1964 CORE national convention (2)
" Members of the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.) form a hand-clasping circle to sing songs in the lobby of the Hotel Muehlebach. The organization is in convention at Kansas City on July 2, 1964. The group formed in the lobby after a sit-in in…
photo of demonstration at 1964 CORE national conference (1)
"Members of the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.), in a sit-in at the Hotel Muehlebach barber shop occupy all chairs on July 2, 1964 in Kansas City. Just after President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Bill in Washington, a C.O.R.E. member asked…