photo of Target City director Walter Brooks, Baltimore CORE member Danny Gant with CORE leader Herb Callender
Baltimore CORE, Target City
This is a photo of the director of Target City in Baltimore Walter Brooks (center, Black male, cigarette) and Baltimore CORE member Danny Gant (center, Black male, bald head). Gant and Brooks were both heads of CORE's Target City project at different times. Brooks was formerly the chairman of New Haven CORE.
To the far left next to the man with the hat is Herb Callender, formerly the chairman of Bronx CORE but by that time a field secretary and then the national organization director for CORE.
Richard Childress
Childress Collection
Maryland Historical Society
PP177 (Box 2, Folder 1)
Maryland Historical Society
Richard Childress
Baltimore , Maryland
Rhonda Y. Williams essay on CORE's Target City project - "The Pursuit of Audacious Power Rebel Reformers and Neighborhood Politics in Baltimore, 1966-1968"
Target City
This is Rhonda Y. Williams' essay on CORE's Target City project - "The Pursuit of Audacious Power Rebel Reformers and Neighborhood Politics in Baltimore, 1966-1968". It is taken from the collection "Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level".
Rhonda Williams is an associate professor of Women's Studies and History at Case Western Reserve University.
Rhonda Y. Williams
Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level, edited by Peniel Joseph
Palgrave Macmillan
Rhonda Y. Williams
Baltimore, Maryland