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This is a 1969 photo of Westbury CORE chairman Harold Russell (left) and vice chairman James Sobers (right). In the photo they are announcing their quitting their posts as the heads of the Long Beach NAACP to join CORE. They were given permission to…

This is a April 22, 1964 photo of South Jamaica CORE member Joel Rosinsky (White, front, holding sign, ‘No dogs…’) along with unidentified CORE members demonstrating inside the 1964 World's Fair. They are marching in front of the United States…

This is a photo of South Jamaica CORE member Joel Rosinsky (White, front, holding sign, ‘No dogs…’) demonstrating at the 1964 World’s Fair.

He was part of the original group that seceded from Queens CORE to South Jamaica CORE.

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This is a 1975 article that was a follow up to the Dec. 11 1975 article that reported CORE was sending mercenaries to Angola as part of a C.I.A. operation. In it, CORE national director Roy Innis denied the report and blames the C.I.A. for sabotaging…

This is a missing poster for CORE members Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). They were the three field workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by the Ku Klux Klan because of their civil rights…

These are the sections of James Farmer's file from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that have been released and made available to the public on the FBI's website.

Click on the links under the image below to download the .pdf…

These are the sections of James Farmer's file from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that have been released and made available to the public on the FBI's website.

click on the links under the image below (farmer fbi1, farmer fbi2) to download…

This is a document from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's COINTELPRO program that discusses plans to attempt to convince Herman Ferguson, former education chairman of South Jamaica CORE, that Charles 37X Kenyatta, leader of the Harlem Mau Mau,…

This is a photo of counter protesters at Bronx CORE's White Castle demonstration.

The hat being placed on the baby is embroidered with a confederate flag, a white supremacist symbol. The hat itself appears to be that of a confederate soldier from…

This is a July 9,1963 photo of Bronx CORE's White Castle demonstration. Inside the restaurant are White counter protesters clearly holding the Confederate flag. Also known as a 'rebel flag', it was the flag of southern secessionists during the Civil…