1968 film clip of Walter Brooks, head of Target City in Baltimore

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

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Public Broadcast System

1968

film

English

1968