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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil rights movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is "to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion ...
Notwithstanding passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 barring discrimination in public accommodations, employment and private education, and the equally broad Voting Rights Act of 1965, faith in the Johnson Administration and its liberal allies was ebbing, and a gulf had opened between SNCC and other civil rights organizations. In Atlantic ...
California Civil Rights Department; Campus Pride; Chicana Rights Project; Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco) Civil Rights Commission (Puerto Rico) Columbia Queer Alliance; Comité des Citoyens; Community Change; Community Service Organization; Congress of Racial Equality; Constitutional Liberties Information Center; CyberDissidents.org
Innis was selected National Chairman of CORE in 1968 a contentious convention meeting. [8] [9] Innis initially headed the organization in a strong campaign of black nationalism. White CORE activists, according to James Peck, were removed from CORE in 1965, as part of a purge of whites from the movement then under the control of Innis. [10]
A national Latino legal and civil rights organization is suing a property management company, alleging it a young woman in New Jersey access to rental units based solely on her immigration status ...
Created in the 1950s, the Civil Rights Division leads the Justice Department’s enforcement of federal laws intended to combat discrimination in areas such as housing, employment and education.
James Leonard Farmer Jr. (January 12, 1920 – July 9, 1999) was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." [1] He was the initiator and organizer of the first Freedom Ride in 1961, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the ...
Amanda Nguyen is an activist, social entrepreneur and CEO of Rise, a non-profit civil rights organization. She has passed over 65 laws, including the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights.