Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston chapter of CORE and local college students will demonstrate at the Howard Johnson's on Commonwealth Ave. and at the chain's national office in Wollaston. Alan Gartner, Boston CORE chairman, last night estimated more than 100 students would join the protest...
Members of the Congress On Racial Equality (CORE) and student volunteers today will stage a nation-wide protest against the Howard Johnson restaurant chain for its refusal to negotiate the desegregation of restaurants in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Alabama...
...investigating discriminatory practices of one particular company, CORE found that the company, like most companies in the North, hired Negroes ... only in menial positions. Observation of the numbers of Negroes the company had in various jobs, and informal conversations held by white CORE members with supervisors, revealed that although it kept no records of numbers of Negroes hired (in concurrence with Fair Practices Laws), the company indeed had a tacit policy of not hiring or promoting Negroes to either clerical or public relations jobs of any kind...
...CORE's action in such cases is first to negotiate, suggesting possible methods of opening up the company's hiring policy, then to wait. If no change or indication of willingness to change is forthcoming, CORE proceeds to more direct action, such as organizing pickets or encouraging consumer boycotts against the company...
Each of the candidates answered three questions prepared by representatives of the sponsoring groups--CORE, the NAACP, and the Fair Housing Federation--and was allowed five minutes to make a statement...