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1963 photo of St. Louis CORE demonstration against Jefferson Bank
''Members of the Congress of Racial Equality start to sit down as they block the front entrance of the Jefferson Bank and Trust Co. in St. Louis, Missouri, Aug. 31, 1963. The 250 demonstrators were protesting against alleged job discrimination.…
FBI documents on St. Louis CORE and ACTION
This collection of FBI documents simply notes that ACTION (Action Committee to Increase Opportunities for Negroes), a militant civil rights group in St. Louis, was a splinter group from the local CORE chapter that broke away several years earlier.…
1963 film clip of a St. Louis CORE demonstration
This is a 1963 film clip of St. Louis CORE in action from the documentary "White Northeners Confronted With Negroes". The issue was employment, specifically getting Blacks hired at local banks. It is an excellent clip because it gives a real sense of…
Two journal papers on St. Louis CORE and 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…