1968 film clip of Walter Brooks, head of Target City in Baltimore
Walter Brooks
1968 film clip CORE's Walter Brooks as a correspondent for PBS' "Black Journal". He was the chairman of New Haven CORE, a field secretary for CORE and then head of the Target City project in Baltimore. He worked for "Community Progress Inc., the first anti-poverty agency in the country", was the "City-wide Coordinator for Voter Registration for the A. Phillip Randolph Institute","Area Coordinator for March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965" and ultimately he became a state representative in Connecticut and "chaired the Black and Hispanic Caucus".
Black Journal
https://americanarchive.org/catalog
Public Broadcast System
1968
film
English
1968
Two journal papers on St. Louis CORE and ACTION
St. Louis CORE, ACTION
These are two journal articles on St. Louis CORE and an offshoot group of the chapter, ACTION (Action Committee to Improve Opportunities for Negroes). The articles, "Black Power on the Ground: Continuity and Rupture in St. Louis" and "Between Civil Rights and Black Power In The Gateway City: The Action Committee To Improve Opportunities For Negroes (ACTION), 1964-75" were written by the historian Clarence Lang.
Clarence Lang
Neighborhood Rebel; Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Spring 2004
Palgrave Macmillan; Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Spring 2004,
2010; 2004
Clarence Lang
.pdf
English
text
St. Louis CORE, 1960's and 1970's
photo of Floyd McKissick, CORE national director, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Dr. Martin Luther King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, tells news conference that he and his organization support a boycott of the Olympic games by African American athletes in New York, Dec. 14, 1967. At left is Floyd McKissick, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), who also announced support for the boycott. "
- from apimages.com
Eddie Adams
apimages.com
apimages.com
December 14, 1967
Eddie Adams
67121411070
FBI documents on CORE's Target City project
FBI documents on CORE
This collection of FBI documents pertains to CORE’s Target City project in Baltimore. The come from the Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984.
CORE’s Target City project was described by the FBI as ‘the most active Black nationalist group in the Baltimore area’. The documents also demonstrate that the project was categorized under the heading of 'Black nationalist Hate Groups' and was a subject of the COINTELPRO Program. The collection because it is so small suggests there is much more in the FBI's files on Target City than has been released.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984
Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984
public domain
Baltimore, Maryland
PhD dissertation on CORE's Target City project
Target City
This is CORE member Louis C. Goldberg's PhD dissertation, "CORE IN TROUBLE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL DILEMMAS OF THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY TARGET CITY PROJECT IN BALTIMORE".
It was done while he was a student at John Hopkins University.
click on 'target city.pdf' below to download the file.
Louis C. Goldberg
1970
Louis C. Goldberg
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
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
photo of Ruth Turner Perot, Cleveland CORE
This is a photo of Ruth Turner Perot, executive secretary for Cleveland CORE before she and her husband Tony Perot went on to work for the national office. Both were members of the National Action Commitee.
"The first lady of Black Power", not only did she play a crucial role in getting Floyd McKissick elected as national director, as his special assistant, she also played a large part in defining and articulating CORE's philosophy of Black Power. It is unclear if there was another woman who was a national leader during the Black Power movement that predates Ruth Turner. Gloria Richardson of the Cambridge Movement retired from activism before Black Power proper. Kathleen Cleaver and Elaine Brown from the Panthers came after.
Turner is also credited by CORE historians August Meier and Elliot Rudwick with playing an essential role in having original Freedom Rider Jim Peck fired from his position as the long time editor of the CORElator.
Ruth Turner Perot
https://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interviewee/ruth-turner
Ruth Turner Perot