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This is the 1961 arrest photo for CORE member Dave Dennis as a Freedom Rider in Jackson, Mississippi. At the time he was a 20 years old student at Dillard University.

A member of New Orleans CORE, he became a field director for CORE in…

This is the 1961 arrest photo for CORE member Julia Aaron as a Freedom Rider in Jackson, Mississippi. He was only 20 years old at the time,

One of the founding members of New Orleans CORE, she lived in the St. Bernard public housing project and…

This is the 1961 arrest photo for CORE member George Raymond as a Freedom Rider in Jackson, Mississippi. At the time, he was only 18 years old.

A member of New Orleans CORE, he went on to become a field director for CORE in Mississippi…

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…

"Police carry a man to a police van at left at a construction site on Chicago’s South Side on August 2, 1963 where school building is under way. The man was among others who were arrested when they sat in front of trucks, blocking their entrance to…

"These six leaders of the nation's largest national black organizations met in New York's Roosevelt Hotel on July 2, 1963 to discuss plans for their projected civil right march on Washington, DC. They are from left; John Lewis, chairman of the…

This is a April 1963 photo of Malcolm X with Floyd McKissick (center), then CORE's national chairman. On the other side of McKissick is Walter Riley, chairman of the local Durham CORE chapter. The photo is from when McKissick debated Malcolm X in…

This is a journal paper on CORE chapters in Kentucky by historian Gerald Smith.

''Members of the Congress of Racial Equality start to sit down as they block the front entrance of the Jefferson Bank and Trust Co. in St. Louis, Missouri, Aug. 31, 1963. The 250 demonstrators were protesting against alleged job discrimination.…

This is a collection of FBI documents pertaining to Bayrd Rustin, CORE's first field secretary and long time member of its Board of Advisers. They have been released and made available to the public on the FBI's website.

The first set…