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Congress of Racial Equality Collected Records
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The Congress of Racial Equality was organized circa 1942 by an interracial group of University of Chicago students and theological seminary students, together with members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.). The purpose of the organization was to eliminate all racial segregation and discrimination by means of interracial, direct nonviolent action. By 1966, CORE's official policy shifted to Black power and Black separatism while rejecting the former principles of non-violence.
These CORE records reflect the early work performed by Fellowship of Reconcilation members.
Box 1 contains administrative records and information about various projects. Box 2 contains mostly pamphlets.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for the records of this organization.
Gift of Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1954, 1956.
For the catalog record for this collection, and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog.
Processed and original checklist prepared in March 1959; collection processed and checklist revised by Anne Yoder, November 1997; this version of the finding aid prepared by Wendy E. Chmielewski, 2009.
Items removed: photographs
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Collection Inventory
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"This is the playground of many children who live too far from an open playground"
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(in the background are the Kober apartments)
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"You see, children will play together"
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"You see, children will play together"
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Nally -1; Paul - 1
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Joan-1; Paul-1; Ellen-1; SIS-1
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"The workshoppers enjoyed the facilities of McKinley Pool on two hot Sunday afternoons"
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"The workshoppers enjoyed the facilities of McKinley Pool on two hot Sunday afternoons"
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"We had a tough, nonviolent 'discussion' on pacifism after this meeting with St. Peter Claver Centa"; Nally; Joan -1 (?)
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"We had a tough, nonviolent 'discussion' on pacifism after this meeting with St. Peter Claver Centa"
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"We had a tough, nonviolent 'discussion' on pacifism after this meeting with St. Peter Claver Centa"; SIS-1; Joan-1
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"We had a tough, nonviolent 'discussion' on pacifism after this meeting with St. Peter Claver Centa"
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"We had a tough, nonviolent 'discussion' on pacifism after this meeting with St. Peter Claver Centa"
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Nancy-1; SIS-1; Betty; Joan
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Nally; Joan-1; man playing the violin, woman the piano
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Scanned as: Houser interracial workshop 1951-2.psd (10/07); Joan-1
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Nally; Paul Beauer (?) 1
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Washington, D.C.
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Rev. Donald Harrington (Community Church, NYC), signing a pledge to boycott Jim Crow places of business, recreation & worship (part of the Pledge Brotherhood Campaign sponsored by CORE)
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1951 George houser Scrapbook - loose; Picnic as pann(?) in Md. on our last Sunday together
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1951 George houser Scrapbook - loose; Picnic as pann(?) in Md. on our last Sunday together (1951)
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at Dr. E.B. Hendenson's off Chesapeake Bay, MD
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at Dr. E.B. Hendenson's off Chesapeake Bay, MD
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at Dr. E.B. Hendenson's off Chesapeake Bay, MD
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Dr. E.B. Hendenson's front yard, Chesapeake Bay, MD
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Clarence Martin #16
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Wed. July 16 Rosedale #26
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Wed. July 16 Rosedale #25
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Mrs.Savoy on Rosedale playground
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() Martin
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22#
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Wed. July 16 Rosedale #30
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() st. (?) Wed. July 16
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Wed., July 16 Rosedale #29
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In the paddy wagon The () July 17; #23
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Dean Fletcher #9
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Bob Young #19
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#27
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#24
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Playground () people who came to work at (). () when we get into the plaground
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Mrs. () in playground
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Rosedale #28
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