Congress of Racial Equality
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Congress of Racial Equality Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Congress of Racial Equality
Overview
The Congress of Racial Equality was organized circa 1942 by an interracial group of University of Chicago students and theological seminary students, together with members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.). The purpose of the organization was to eliminate all racial segregation and discrimination by means of interracial, direct nonviolent action. By 1966, CORE's official policy shifted to Black power and Black separatism while rejecting the former principles of non-violence. This...
Dates:
1942-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Juanita Morrow Nelson and Wallace F. Nelson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-262
Abstract
Juanita and Wally Nelson were civil rights activists, tax resisters, simple living proponents, farmers, and writers/speakers for peace.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1923-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Subject: African Americans -- Segregation X
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- African American civil rights workers -- History -- Sources 1
- African American pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- African Americans -- Segregation 1
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Discrimination in public accommodations -- United States 1
- Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Segregation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Simplicity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Sustainable agriculture -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Voluntary simplicity movement -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- You don't have to ride Jim Crow! 1995 1 + ∧ less
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