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This is a photo of Queens College CORE at the March on Washington.

The members of CORE in the photo are currently unidentified.

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 East River CORE member Penn Kemble taken during the mid to late 1980's. He was one of the Harlem CORE members who broke away to help start East River CORE. At 23 years old, he was also one of the East River CORE members who was…

This is a May 26, 1964 photo of Downtown CORE member Patricia Newman (holding sign) and other CORE members being arrested. They had been staging a sit-in at the office of Building Commissioner Harold Birns.

The other members of CORE here are…

This is a photo of well known actor Ossie Davis participating in Brooklyn CORE's week long sit in at the Board of Education in 1962.

Davis, who with a his wife Ruby Dee, were known to go out of their way to participate in the movement and…

This is a 1968 photo of East River CORE's last chairman Omar Abu Ahmed (right, bald head) standing next to SNCC chairman H. Rap Brown (left, sunglasses).

As an active member of Harlem CORE, Ahmed attended the March on Washington. He was one of…

This is a photo of the second Brooklyn CORE chairman Ollie Leeds (Black).

Leed's parents were from Grenada. He spent 3 1/2 years in the Army and was a decorated WWII veteran. He was also an early member of the Negro History Association.

He…

This is a 1965 photo of NYU CORE demonstrating on campus. The chapter was protesting the NYU’s association with the First National City Bank which had been accused of practices which supported segregation in the South.

The photo is of the front…

This is a photo of NYU CORE chairman Gerald 'Jerry" Bornstein taken from a 1965 copy of NYU's student newspaper. Professor Bornstein later became the Deputy Chief Librarian at Baruch College and was the author of several book, such as 'The Wall Came…

This is a 1964 photo of (left to right) Queens CORE chairman George Kaufman, Bronx CORE chairman Herb Callender and Brooklyn CORE chairman Isiah Brunson taken right before the World's Fair Stall-In. All three chapters, along with Harlem CORE,…