This is a night time photo of CORE member Ed Lewinson (front, White male with dog) and Yaphet Kotto (front, Black male, white shirt, tie), at Bronx CORE's White Castle demonstration, July 11, 1963.
This is a 1975 photo of New York CORE member Lucy Komisar. A member of the chapter when they were downtown, she continued to work in the chapter until mid 1962. She was also a Freedom Rider, for which she was arrested in December of 1961.
She also…
This is a 1965 photo of 7 Arts CORE member Gloria Foster performing in the title role of 'Medea'. She is an example, like many in 7 Arts CORE, of Black performers who successfully broke the color line of Hollywood and Broadway. '... During the 1960s…
This is a photo of Queens College CORE at the March on Washington.
According to the photographer, Mark Levy, the man with the bullhorn is Students for a Democratic Society member Daniel Millstone, one of the volunteer marshals for the March. …
This is a photo of New York CORE member Susan Brownmiller. She also worked as a SNCC member on the Mississippi Freedom Project.
Ms. Brownmiller, an instructor at NYU's Gallatin School and Pace University, is well known for her writings on radical…
This is a 1983 article written by the historian Prof. Manning Marable as a critical response to what was happening to the Congress of Racial Equality under its national director Roy Innis in the 1980's. Marable comments on CORE's involvement in the…
This is a 1975 article written by investigative journalists Les Payne and Ernie Volkman on how CORE national director Roy Innis planned to involve CORE in the 1975 Angolan civil war. This was considered highly controversial since his program was …
This is a photo of Brooklyn CORE member Rioghan Kirchner at the Brooklyn Public Library where she volunteers. The majority of
CORE documents and memorabilia in the library's Brooklyn Collection were contributed by Kirchner. In the photo she is…