Congress of Racial Equality and African American Civil Rights

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  • Created by: Alasdair
  • Created on: 02-06-17 16:56
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  • The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
    • Founded 1942
    • United white liberal opinion and expertise
    • Had specific targets which often resulted in tangible progress
    • Legal challenges mounted by NAACP led to key Supreme Court decisions
    • Campaigners of CORE focused on key areas
    • Two thirds of initial membership white
    • CORE's impact includes following:
      • Began Freedom Rides in 1947
        • Eight white activists challenged segregation on buses in South
      • Repeated Freedom Rides to more effect in 1961
        • This time, opposition was more pronounced, as was publicity
      • Provoked mob violence in Anniston and Birmingham and savage ill-treatment of African-American Freedom Riders in Jackson, Mississippi
      • Kennedy was led to authorise Interstate Commerce Commission to desegregate interstate transport,
        • It had, as with NAACP's action an immediate result
      • Focused action
        • Campaign to desegregate schools in Chicago an indication that action for segregation  follow NAACP's court victory had been slow
    • BUS BOYCOTT (not linked to CORE)
      • Significant for other organisations which were formed locally, such as Montgomery Women's Political Council

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