CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
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CORE (Congress of Racial
Equality), History.com
CORE was founded in 1942, it became
one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the Civil
Rights movement. In the early 1960’s, CORE launched “Freedom Rides, the Freedom
Summer Voter Registration Project and the historic 1963 March on Washington.”
James Farmer was CORE’s first black national director.
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James Meredith Ole Miss,
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James Meredith was an
African-American man and he was denied from University of Mississippi also
known as Ole Miss. Chaos broke out from the white mob when he tried to
integrate the all-white school. In 1961, he filed a law suit with the NAACP
against Ole Miss and won.