Core

Congress of Racial Equality

By Cheyenne_Donaghue

  • CORE

    CORE
    A group of Black and White students in Chicago founded CORE. They were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's protest strategies of nonviolence and civil disobedience. From the beginning they did not want to bring violence but were determined to stand for equal rights.

  • Literature

    Literature
    CORE's Historian Brian Purnell wrote a book, "Righting Jim Crow in the Country of Kings". He stated, "CORE hoped to create an interracial, nonviolent army that would end racial segregation in America with campaigns that employed what Gandhi called satyagraha, which translates as 'soul force' or 'truth force.' CORE founders believed that local chapters' public displays of interracial solidarity and disciplined use of nonviolence would transform America into a truly colorblind democratic society."

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    After the Brown v. Board of Education court case, CORE focused all of their efforts on the South. They supported sit-ins and sent field secretaries to advise activists on nonviolent protest methods. CORE still believed on their pillar of nonviolence. They wanted to do good. They believed in training their members on how to win this battle correctly.

  • Bus Boycott

    Bus Boycott
    Rosa Parks was just arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the Montgomery, Alabama bus. CORE supported her actions and began their own boycott of state busses. CORE members. This led to the Supreme Court's ruling that state bus segregation laws were unconstitutional. This is another example of how CORE took stand for racial equality through nonviolent actions. They followed other activists who believed in the same morals as them, violence is not the answer.

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    CORE's national director, James Farmer, organized the Freedom Rides. The original Freedom Ride consisted of Black and White men and women, and they headed South from Washington D.C. This interracial group sat wherever they wanted on buses. The more ground this group covered the more arrests took place. They had to end the campaign because of the increase of danger that was being brought by people fighting against CORE, the main act of violence was the bus bombing in Anniston, Alabama.

  • Voting

    Voting
    CORE focused on voter registration and co-sponsored the March on Washington. This is where Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous, "I Have Dream Speech". This March on Washinton is where 250,000 people protested the continual inequality of African AMericans.