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This is a still image of Downtown CORE member Bell Gale from the documentary 'Eyes on The Prize'. She is shown here in Mississippi working in the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) office for the Freedom Summer Project of 1964.

An…

This is a mid 1960's photo of CORE member Wendell Foster.
Although he did not consider himself a member of any chapter, he was especially involved with New York CORE going back as far as the mid 1940's. Most notably, he played a central role in the…

This is a 2009 photo of the Reverend Wendell Foster taken at the Christ Church in the Bronx. He has been a pastor there for 42 years.
"In 1978, he became the first black elected city official in the Bronx, where he served for 24 years as a…

This is a photo of 7 Arts CORE chairman Frances Foster.
She was an award winning actress and stage director (one Obie and two AUDELCO Awards. .

She was also a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company and a director at the New Federal…

This is a film clip of 7 Arts CORE chairman Frances Foster taken from Spike Lee's film "Malcolm X".
She was also featured in Spike Lee's film "Crooklyn".

This is a photo of 7 Arts CORE chairman Jack Jeffers. A bass trombonist, he has played with a Who's Who of the Jazz world, from Clark Terry, Charles Tolliver, Herbie Hancock to Charles Earland. He went on to become the director of the Duke…

This is a still image of 7 Arts member Charles Gordone. It is taken from the film, "Coonskin" (aka "Street Fight"). An Obie award winning actor, Gordone was also the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama with his play, "No Place to be…

This is a film clip of 7 Arts CORE member Charles Gordone acting in Ralph Bakshi's 1975 film, "Coonskin". He starred in this film and appeared in another of Bakshi's film, "Heavy Traffic".
CORE and Rev. Al Sharpton demonstrated against the film…

This is a photo of 7 Arts member Lloyd Richards. Both he and his wife Barbara were among the founding members of 7 Arts CORE.

Richards, as the director of the original 1959 production of "Raisin in the Sun" , was the first Black to direct…

This is a photo of 7 Arts CORE member Alix Kates Shulman. Originally brought into the group by her friends Lloyd and Barbara Richards, she believes she was the one who originally suggested they be called 7 Arts CORE. She had been around CORE as…