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''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.…

"Representatives of the Congress of Racial Equality and student groups mass at the City Hall steps in Columbus, Ohio on April 18, 1964 to support civil rights leaders protesting alleged de factor segregation in Cleveland’s schools. The demonstrators…

"Pickets from the Congress of Racial Equality and spectators mass in front of the Bank of America's day and night branch at No. 1 Powell St., in downtown San Francisco on May 22, 1964. Core began picketing over alleged discrimination against minority…

"A member of a sign-carrying civil rights delegation denied entrance to the convention of Wisconsin Republicans at the Milwaukee Arena sits on the floor of the main corridor in protest on May 23, 1964. Delegates and visitors milled around Mrs. Lee…

"Demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality parade in front of Los Angeles City Hall, Aug. 19, 1965, carrying signs demanding the ouster of Chief of Police William H. Parker and denouncing police brutality. Removal of Mayor Samuel W. Yorty…

"Representatives of the Wisconsin chapter of the Congress for Racial Equality marched and carried signs near Wisconsin's capitol in Madison as legislators met in special session to consider an accelerated high construction bill, Dec. 10, 1963. CORE…

"Police carry a man to a police van at left at a construction site on Chicago’s South Side on August 2, 1963 where school building is under way. The man was among others who were arrested when they sat in front of trucks, blocking their entrance to…

"Actor Marlon Brando marches with other pickets at a housing development in Torrence, Calif. July 27, 1963 in protest against what the Congress of Racial Equality says is the refusal of the developer to sell homes to African-Americans."

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"A member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is dragged from stairway leading to offices of the Board of Education in downtown Chicago on July 22, 1963. Group, protesting pupil admission rules of Chicago schools, resumed sit-in siege at Board…

"Young African American and white children walk hand-in-hand in a demonstration put on by the Congress of Racial Equality outside the Chicago Board of Education headquarters on July 19, 1963. "

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