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
The Mighty Wurlitzer : How The CIA Played America by Hugh Wilford
This is a .pdf version of Prof. Hugh Wilford's book "The Mighty Wurlitzer : How The CIA Played America" (click on the image to bring it up).
I am posting it here because recently Dr. Wesley Muhammed, PhD, of the Nation of Islam did a presentation regarding the scholarship on the assassination of Malcolm X. During the presentation, Dr. Muhammad claimed CORE founder and national director James Farmer was a C.I.A. asset. Muhammad claimed, "The C.I.A. sent James Farmer to follow on the heels of Malcolm X to try and undo Malcolm's damage in Africa... because the White House saw Malcolm's African diplomacy as damaging to America's status and America's African policy."
This book is what Muhammad used as his source material (chapter 9).
Dr. Muhammad's presentation can be seen here starting at about the 52:20 mark -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHKXbzBrV4&t=3159s
Hugh Wilford, Dr. Wesley Muhammad
https://epdf.pub/the-mighty-wurlitzer-how-the-cia-played-america.html
Harvard University Press
2008
.pdf
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 Syracuse CORE member Wretha Wiley
Wretha Wiley
This is a 1973 photo of Syracuse CORE member Wretha Wiley walking with her children. Wiley was the wife of CORE associate director Dr. George Wiley and the mother of 2020 NYC mayoral candidate Maya Wiley seen in the left side of the photo holding her mother's hand.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/maya-wiley-nyc-mayor-race.html?fbclid=IwAR38vzrf5Ai5ZCLC2eWqR6OX1VvhPJKD_4-piLdRghXc2nPAWV9PUqsEccc
Jet Magazine
1973
Jet Magazine
photo
1973 New York
photo of San Francisco CORE chairman Bill Bradley
San Francisco CORE
This is a photo of San Francisco CORE chairman Bill Bradley. He was arrested for picketing the Sheraton- Palace Hotel as part of a campaign against its 'discriminatory hiring practices'. (google.com)
He has since changed his name to Oba T'Shaka. He worked as a Professor at San Francisco State University for over thirty years. More info can be found here -
http://www.obatshaka.com/
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/the-civil-rights-movement-in-the-bay-area/ARtzEd5p?hl=en&position=24%2C0
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
June 1, 1964
San Francisco News - Call Bulletin
BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 208, [06-01-64.05]
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
photo of New Orleans CORE chairman Oretha Castle
New Orleans CORE
This is a photo of New Orleans CORE chairman Oretha Castle. One of the chapter's founding members, she was also part of landmark 1
case, Lombard, et al v. Louisiana, after being arrested during the chapter's demonstration against Woolworth's department chain.
She went on to became the field director for northern Louisiana and married CORE's Richard Haley. After leaving CORE she served as
deputy administrator at Charity Hospital.
source - http://www.knowla.org
http://www.knowla.org/entry/850/
www.knowla.org
photo of New Orleans CORE
New Orleans CORE
This is a photo of members of New Orleans CORE including many of its original members.
Left to Right - George Raymond, Carlene Smith, Thomas Valentine, Jill Finsten, Doratha Smith, Jean Thompson, Patricia Smith, Alice Thompson, _______, Betty Daniels, _______, Garnel Rosemond, Oretha Castle, and Claude Reese.
source: http://nutrias.org/photos/porter/porter1.htm
http://nutrias.org/photos/porter/porter1.htm
New Orleans Public Library, Marion James Porter Collection
New Orleans
photo of Lee Zeldin, Madison CORE
"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 Zeldin, an official of the Madison, Wis., chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. She stayed on the floor until the convention adjourned. "
- from apimages.com
Charles Knoblock
apimages.com
apimages.com
May 23, 1964
Charles Knoblock
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