Congress of Racial Equality

The Congress of Racial Equality, (CORE), was founded in 1942 on the campus of the University of Chicago. The founders James Farmer, George Houser, Bayard Rustin, and Bernice Fisher unquestionably had to want to make a difference on segregation. In June of 1964, three civil rights activists, Andrew (Andy) Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael (Mickey) Schwerner were murdered by members of the KKK (Klu Klux Klan) while working as volunteers for CORE’s Freedom Summer registration project in Mississippi

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is a interracial American organization established by James Farmer in 1942 at University of chicago to improve race relations and end discriminatory policies through direct-action projects. Farmer had been working as the race-relations secretary for the American branch of the pacifist group Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) but resigned over a dispute in policy; he founded CORE to make a nonviolent approach to stopping racial judgment that was inspired by Mahatma

"Freedom and equality are inherent rights in the United States: therefore, I encourage young people to take on the task by standing up and speaking out on behalf of people denied those rights. We have not yet finished the job of making our country whole” - James Farmer, 19 James Farmer was one of the “Big Four” of the civil rights movement era of the nineteen hundreds, he called for racial harmony through non-violence. James Farmer helped shape civil rights movements with his use of non-violent

along with himself in nonviolent protest to prepare the riders to ride through those stubborn states, in turn desegregating them . While acquiring his degree from Howard University, the college where he decided to co-found and Direct the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Farmer studied Gandhi, this strongly influencing the activist to approach the protest peacefully . Choosing to model the Freedom Rides after a similar bus protest, Farmer followed Bayard Rustin’s “Journey of Reconciliation”; however

of peace and love as well as refuse to cooperate with violent objectors (britannica.com). Four years later, James L. Farmer Jr. graduated in 1941 with a divinity degree; however, despite his father disapproving, Farmer chose to cofound Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) as the organization’s director with George Houser, a college classmate, in 1942 rather than continue on with ministerial work (biography.com). Altogether, Farmer graduated Howard with: support from those who joined CORE and inspiration

with statutes called Jim Crow laws. In essence, these laws were a system of legal segregation. African-Americans and white citizens used separate facilities “ranging from drinking fountains to public schools” (Cayton et al). In 1943 the Congress of Racial Equality created the sit-in as a means of protest to desegregate the Jack Spratt Coffee House in Chicago. These sit-ins involved the protesters sitting peacefully at the counter waiting for service. Although there was several of these peaceful protests

Within this nine-chapter, two-part book, author Paul Farmer single handedly both analyzed, and harshly critiqued the central and deeply rooted ideas of poverty throughout the world. In his book, Pathologies of Power, he tackles the daunting and largely misunderstood topic of poverty “to reveal the ways in which the most basic right-the right to survive- is trampled in an age of great affluence... (pg.6). Farmer, is both a professor of medical anthropology at Harvard, a doctor, and a founding director

The Free Soil Movement is a movement started by the Free Soilers as a result of the Wilmot Proviso from the 1840s. The Wilmot Proviso emerged as a response to issue of slavery in new territories that America had a result of the Mexican War. However, the Wilmot Proviso was too controversial and only caused further outrage amongst the both sections. The Free Soilers had a very simple and quite reasonable idea that seemed to be a feasible compromise for the two conflicting sides. The Free Soilers did

Civil Rights Movement, one of the biggest organizations involved in the movement was the Congress of Racial Equality, also known as CORE, one of the most prominent organizations that had been responsible for the massive outpouring of direct action against housing, employment, and educational discrimination. During the Civil Rights Movement, CORE had worked with other civil rights groups to fight back racial inequality with aims to desegregate public facilities such as the Freedom Rides, the Freedom

King. The fight for racial equality has been an issue for more than four hundred years and on Marc 15, 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson gave a speech that shed light on the unethical separation of Americans, solely based on their skin color. During a period of racial and political unrest, America was divided over the voting rights of African-Americans. Furthermore, President Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” speech became a major stepping stone in the change of the nation by persuading Congress to pass a bill that