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1942 CORE founded.
CORE or Congress for Racial Equality was founded by a group of students in Chicago. They wanted to help solve the problem of civil rights for minority%u2019s. -
1947, testing the color barrier
Early 1947, CORE sent 8 white and 8 black to test the supreme court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. It was a two week journey. -
Journey of Reconciliation
They were arrested several times through out their trip. The white men on the trip got much harsher punishments then their black peers. -
Starts to end segregation
The Journey of Reconciliation got alot of publicity, and that event really got CORE moving on the social problems in the United States. "In February 1948 the Council Against Intolerance in America gave Houser and Bayard Rustin the Thomas Jefferson Award for the Advancement of Democracy for their attempts to bring an end to segregation in interstate travel. " (CORE, 1) -
James Farmer
Farmer became the National Director of racial Equality in 1953, he was the main person to help organize the famous student sit ins to end segration in restaurants. His sit ins also helped integrate parks, swimming pools, churches, libraries, museums, and beaches. -
Freedom rides
CORE organized the Freedom Rides in the south; by 1961 CORE had 53 chapters in the United States. The Freedom Rides helped to end segregation on southern buses. Although there were some set backs, in may of 1961 a bus going through Birmingham, Alabama was attacked by the KKK, the bus was blown up and the passengers were attacked. -
Floyd McKissick
McKissick replaced Farmer as National Director of CORE in 1963. The SNCC and the NAACP organized the Freedom Summer campaign. They wanted to try and end social and political injustices in the South. In 1962 only 6.7% of blacks were registered voters. Their campaign got over 80,000 people to join their party by the time of the election. -
Freedom Schools
CORE, SNCC, and NAACP made 30 "Freedom Schools" in towns in Mississippi, they had volunteers teach in the schools and over 3,000 students eventually went through the schools. -
Voting Rights Act
Lyndon Johnson had congress pass his Voting Rights Act. He said" Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes." His act was later passed by a huge majority in the Senate (77 to 19) and the House of Representatives (338 to 48).
