What does CORE stand for?

Zeldin was an ardent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, organizing a local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality and as a young mother often showed up for pickets and sit-ins with her kids in tow.

Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture from the Congress of Racial Equality.

Du Bois; James Farmer, co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam; Pan-Africanist and black repatriation advocate Marcus Garvey; voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer; former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson; filmmaker Spike Lee; Malcolm X; Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall; Black Panther founder Huey P.

Supporting the appellants in an amici curiae brief to overturn the code of the District of Columbia were the attorneys general of 13 states, and representatives of the Second Amendment Foundation, the Congress of Racial Equality, the American Civil Rights Union, and the National Rifle Association.

In 1966, he quit the Congress of Racial Equality over an anti-Semitic remark by a CORE official.

That was when the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) invited some 700 diplomats, scientists, journalists, and Gotham High School students to come and consider the "implications and reality" of biotechnology at UN headquarters.

What I'm proposing," Farmer, founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), answered without hesitation, "is that as a matter of policy in employment, we replace color blindness with color consciousness aimed at eliminating inequities based on color .

Two years later he joined the Congress of Racial Equality and worked in Tennessee with sharecroppers who had been displaced for registering to vote.