24 items found
Collection ID is exactly "40" AND Subject - Corporate contains "Congress of racial equality"
Sorted by Title
Memo from Melba Harmon to Bill Norris Regarding Civil Rights Picket, 1964

Memo from Melba Harmon to Bill Norris Regarding Civil Rights Picket, 1964
Date
1964-06-26
Description
Memorandum from Melba Harmon to Florida Highway Patrolman Bill Norris regarding civil rights protests at the Capitol building. The Tallahassee chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) planned to picket at the Capitol each weekday from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. indefinitely.
Collection
Memo from Melba Harmon to Bill Norris Regarding Civil Rights Picket, 1964

Memo from Melba Harmon to Bill Norris Regarding Civil Rights Picket, 1964
Memorandum from Charles R. Oldham to CORE Group Leaders and Students, December 15, 1960

Memorandum from Charles R. Oldham to CORE Group Leaders and Students, December 15, 1960
Date
1960-12-15
Description
CORE memo from Charles R. Oldham, national chairman, discussing white sit-in demonstrator Richard Parker being arrested during a picket line at McCrory's in Tallahassee; information about discrimination in Tennessee by local distributors of Wonderbread and Sealtest Milk against African-American registered voters; and an article in Look magazine about sit-ins written by Margaret Leonard, a CORE member.
Collection
Memorandum from Charles R. Oldham to CORE Group Leaders and Students, December 15, 1960

Memorandum from Charles R. Oldham to CORE Group Leaders and Students, December 15, 1960
Memorandum from CORE Field Director Gordon Carey to Local Contacts and the Advisory Committee, ca. 1960

Memorandum from CORE Field Director Gordon Carey to Local Contacts and the Advisory Committee, ca. 1960
Date
1960 (circa)
Description
Memo from CORE discussing sit-in activity in New Orleans during September 1960, starting with the arrest of seven CORE members holding a peaceful sit-in at the Canal Street Woolworth's lunch counter. The memo outlines other arrests in New Orleans and the charges against these activists.
Collection
Memorandum from CORE Field Director Gordon Carey to Local Contacts and the Advisory Committee, ca. 1960

Memorandum from CORE Field Director Gordon Carey to Local Contacts and the Advisory Committee, ca. 1960
Memorandum from CORE, Report of Cities with New Lunch Counters, December 8, 1960

Memorandum from CORE, Report of Cities with New Lunch Counters, December 8, 1960
Date
1960-12-08
Description
CORE memo reporting the cities in the United States where new lunch counters have opened since February 1, 1960. A total of 126 lunch counters opened.
Collection
Memorandum from CORE, Report of Cities with New Lunch Counters, December 8, 1960

Memorandum from CORE, Report of Cities with New Lunch Counters, December 8, 1960
Memorandum from CORE, Report of Lunch Counter Demonstrations, December 8, 1960

Memorandum from CORE, Report of Lunch Counter Demonstrations, December 8, 1960
Date
1960-12-08
Description
Memo from CORE outlining locations of recent demonstrations against lunch counter segregation across the South.
Collection
Memorandum from CORE, Report of Lunch Counter Demonstrations, December 8, 1960

Memorandum from CORE, Report of Lunch Counter Demonstrations, December 8, 1960
Miami Interracial Action Institute Summary and Evaluation, 1959

Miami Interracial Action Institute Summary and Evaluation, 1959
Date
1959
Description
This report contains a summary of action at the institute written by Susan Boden. She writes about institute members testing Miami lunch counters, movie theaters and public transportation to see if African-American Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) members would be served. Sit-ins were held at Jackson Byron's department store and Grant's. In each instance, CORE members were not served. James R. Robinson of CORE wrote an evaluation of the institute which includes sections about the concept and aims of the institute; preparatory work; selections of participants; functioning of the institute; evaluations made by institute members, and conclusions and suggestions for future institutes.
Collection
Miami Interracial Action Institute Summary and Evaluation, 1959

Miami Interracial Action Institute Summary and Evaluation, 1959
Minutes from a Tallahassee Action Group, ca. 1960

Minutes from a Tallahassee Action Group, ca. 1960
Date
1960 (circa)
Description
Minutes from a Tallahassee action group discussing what happened in December, including the resignation of George Brown as chairman of the group. Reverend J. S. Johnson automatically assumed chairmanship.
Collection
Minutes from a Tallahassee Action Group, ca. 1960

Minutes from a Tallahassee Action Group, ca. 1960
Nonviolence in Theory and in Action, Congress of Racial Equality, Miami, 1960

Nonviolence in Theory and in Action, Congress of Racial Equality, Miami, 1960
Date
1960
Description
Promotional brochure describing the purpose of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Interracial Training Institute and nonviolent demonstration methods and requesting donations. The institute was held in Miami from August 14 to September 5, 1960.
Collection
Nonviolence in Theory and in Action, Congress of Racial Equality, Miami, 1960

Nonviolence in Theory and in Action, Congress of Racial Equality, Miami, 1960
"Scrapbook" by American Friends Service Committee, April 1960

"Scrapbook" by American Friends Service Committee, April 1960
Date
1960-04
Description
"Scrapbook" newsletter, Volume 15, Number 7, on the topics of picketing, forms of civil disobedience and civil defense tactics. The envelope indicates that the newsletter was sent from Richard Hiler to Patricia Stephens.
Collection
"Scrapbook" by American Friends Service Committee, April 1960

"Scrapbook" by American Friends Service Committee, April 1960
Sit Ins: The Students Report, May 1960

Sit Ins: The Students Report, May 1960
Date
1960-05
Description
A booklet published by the Congress of Racial Equality with an introduction by Lillian Smith. It consists of six stories written by young people involved with sit-ins and other non-violent demonstrations across the United States. Patricia Stephens Due, a Tallahassee civil rights activist who was jailed for 49 days with seven other students following a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter, tells her story from jail. She writes about the events leading up to being jailed and the conditions at the Leon County Jail. The other five stories were written by Edward Rodman (Portsmouth, Virginia), Paul Laprad (Nashville, Tennessee), Thomas Gaither (Orangeburg, South Carolina), Major Johns (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) and Martin Smolin (activities in the North).
Collection
Sit Ins: The Students Report, May 1960

Sit Ins: The Students Report, May 1960
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
s756_b114_f01_05Memo from Melba Harmon to Bill Norris Regarding Civil Rights Picket, 1964TextCivil rights demonstrations
Nonviolence
Picketing		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s756_b114_f01_05_01.jpg
n2015-1_b001_f11_42Memorandum from Charles R. Oldham to CORE Group Leaders and Students, December 15, 1960TextAfrican Americans--Suffrage
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights--Economic aspects		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b001_f11_42.jpg
n2015-1_b001_f11_49Memorandum from CORE Field Director Gordon Carey to Local Contacts and the Advisory Committee, ca. 1960TextPicketing
Civil rights demonstrations
Nonviolence		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b001_f11_49.jpg
n2015-1_b001_f11_41Memorandum from CORE, Report of Cities with New Lunch Counters, December 8, 1960TextCivil rights demonstrations
Segregation
Social integration		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b001_f11_41.jpg
n2015-1_b001_f11_40Memorandum from CORE, Report of Lunch Counter Demonstrations, December 8, 1960TextSolidarity
Civil rights movements--Public opinion
African Americans--Civil rights--Philosophy		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b001_f11_40.jpg
n2015-1_b003_f07_15Miami Interracial Action Institute Summary and Evaluation, 1959TextRace relations
Civil rights--Social aspects
Nonviolence
African Americans--Civil rights		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f07_15.jpg
n2015-1_b001_f09_69Minutes from a Tallahassee Action Group, ca. 1960TextCivil disobedience
Civil rights--Economic aspects
Meetings		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b001_f09_69.jpg
n2015-1_b003_f07_01Nonviolence in Theory and in Action, Congress of Racial Equality, Miami, 1960TextRace relations
Civil rights--Political aspects
Nonviolence		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f07_01.jpg
n2015-1_b001_f09_23"Scrapbook" by American Friends Service Committee, April 1960TextCivil defense
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Passive resistance		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b001_f09_23.jpg
n2015-1_b003_f25_01Sit Ins: The Students Report, May 1960TextRace relations
Civil rights--Social Aspects
Civil rights demonstrations		/fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f25_01.jpg