Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CORE at the beginning of the summer initiated a Freedom Highways project to desegregate public facilities, especially eating places, serving highways in the south. When Howard Johnson restaurants in North Carolina failed to yield under pressure CORE called a conference on the issue with North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford...
...CORE representatives met with Gov. Sanford and Howard Johnson officials early in September but could not get the restaurant managers to enter into negotiations "or even consider the possibility of desegregation," Gartner said...
...CORE Freedom Highways project is an expansion of the campaign organized last year to desegregate eating facilities along Route 40, which stretches between Baltimore and Washington. That campaign, which attracted many participants from the University community, was spurred by several incidents of discrimination involving African diplomats...
...people realize how difficult it is for a Negro to travel by car through the South," Gartner stated. He noted that the present project is allied with CORE's well-known Freedom Rider campaign to desegregate bus terminal facilities in Mississippi and Alabama...
...CORE's principal activity in the Boston area last year centered around the problem of job discrimination. CORE members regularly picketed the Trailway Bus Company in Boston for alleged discriminatory hiring practices...