Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agencies is an invitation to Southern states to devise new, pseudo-legal methods of suppressing their Negro population. The requirement of individual action is totally unrealistic. A man denied a job because of racial discimination is unlikely to be able to figure out the complexities of the law. And CORE can only prosecute a limited number of cases for victimized Negroes...
...joint statement, Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey and Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel, leaders of the Senate drive to pass the civil rights bill, warned: "Civil wrongs do not bring civil rights. Civil disobedience does not bring equal protection under the laws." And national leaders of the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League, CORE and the National Council of Negro Women got together to urge "orderly, nonviolent demonstrations," and to condemn a tie-up this week of New York World's Fair traffic proposed by the Brooklyn chapter of CORE...
Increasingly, local civil rights demonstrators seem to employ pointless, often destructive and sometimes dangerous tactics. New Yorkers last week got a foretaste of what the Brooklyn CORE group's plan might mean: even without a deliberate stall-in, the opening-day crowd at new Shea Stadium, hard by the fairgrounds, caused a memorable traffic jam. The stall-in idea dismayed even the militant national leaders of CORE, who suspended the Brooklyn chapter...
...major purposes of the spring conference was to plan the Mississippi Summer Project. This massive attack on segregation in Mississippi is being organized by the Council of Federated Organizations, a statewide organization composed of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP...
...questions confronting SNCC is whether or not nonviolence can succeed in Mississippi and the "hard-core" South. Howard Zinn, former chairman of the History Department of Spelman College and presently a SNCC advisor, offered the Theory of the Two Souths at the conference. In the First South, which inclcdes Atlanta, Ga., Richmond, Va., and Nashville, Tenn., nonviolent sitins, mass demonstrations, and boycotts eventually result in integrated lunch-counters and de-segregated schools, he said. But in the Second South, the Black Belt area--Albany, Ga., Danville, Va., and Jackson, Miss.--nonviolent actions end only in broken bones, jail terms...