obituary photo of Long Island CORE chairman Lincoln Lynch
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Title
obituary photo of Long Island CORE chairman Lincoln Lynch
Subject
Long Island CORE
Description
This is the photo from Newsday's obituary for Long Island CORE chairman Lincoln Lynch. He was 91 years old when he passed.
After leaving CORE, Lynch became a vice chair for the New York Urban Coalition and a 'professor at the social welfare school ' at Stony Brook/ State University of New York.
He along with James Farmer, Arnie Goldwag (Brooklyn CORE) and Herb Callender (Bronx CORE) was part of the unsuccessful effort in the mid- 1970's to take back CORE from Roy Innis.
according to Newsday, he was also 'one of more than 1,000 people arrested near police headquarters in Manhattan for protesting the police killing of unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo.'
*'THEN AND NOW: Same rights battle, new front'.
Newsday. Oct 7, 1981
*'A FIGHTER FOR JUSTICE Lincoln Lynch, a leader in battle for civil rights on LI, dies at 91'. Newsday. Oct. 27, 2011
After leaving CORE, Lynch became a vice chair for the New York Urban Coalition and a 'professor at the social welfare school ' at Stony Brook/ State University of New York.
He along with James Farmer, Arnie Goldwag (Brooklyn CORE) and Herb Callender (Bronx CORE) was part of the unsuccessful effort in the mid- 1970's to take back CORE from Roy Innis.
according to Newsday, he was also 'one of more than 1,000 people arrested near police headquarters in Manhattan for protesting the police killing of unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo.'
*'THEN AND NOW: Same rights battle, new front'.
Newsday. Oct 7, 1981
*'A FIGHTER FOR JUSTICE Lincoln Lynch, a leader in battle for civil rights on LI, dies at 91'. Newsday. Oct. 27, 2011
Creator
Bill Davis
Source
newsday.com
Publisher
Newsday
Date
May 11, 1998
Rights
Newsday/ Bill Davis
Coverage
Long Island, NY. May 11, 1998
Collection
Citation
Bill Davis, “obituary photo of Long Island CORE chairman Lincoln Lynch,” corenyc.org, accessed November 12, 2024, http://corenyc.org/omeka/index.php/items/show/41.