Word: core
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...large private firms are worse; although most of the department stores now employ Negroes in "high visibility" positions (since Negroes make up so much of the buying market, this is not unsound policy), many industries still refuse to budge. Julius Hobson, the President of Washington CORE, explains that "we picket a company and they take their one Negro out of the stockroom and put him on display to show that they're integrated. Then the pickets leave and he goes back into the stockroom...
Instead of reading only the first and last chapters of my book, he has indeed read the section on The American Scene. He has quoted my verdict on this book as being "James's most vicious book at its core" quite accurately...
...July, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was reported to be considering an investigation of the bank's hiring practices. At the time, Herbert M. Allen, a vice-president of the company, expressed surprise at CORE's plans, saying that "we don't discriminate against Negroes...
...recent hiring was not the result of any pressure on the part of CORE, Cook said. It was done on the bank's initiative, he explained, because the company has "recognized the reality of the fact they won't get the ideal Negro...
Alan Gartner, chairman of the greater Boston chapter of CORE, said that the increase in the number of Negro applicants to the bank has probably been caused indirectly by CORE's work with banks in the Boston area. CORE is currently negotiating with three Boston banks and has made appreciable progress with two of them, according to Gartner...