Congress of Racial Equality

  • C.O.R.E.’s 24th National Convention, June 30, 1967 (Part 1 of 2)

    Comedian Dick Gregory, boxer Muhammad Ali, and Donald Warren, head of the Afro-American Association in Oakland, speak on the need for self-identity among American Blacks at this public meeting which opened CORE’s national 1967 convention. Gregory’s topics are white supremacy and social injustice. Muhammad Ali announces that he will fight at the Oakland Coliseum if…

  • C.O.R.E.’s 24th National Convention, June 30, 1967 (Part 2 of 2)

    This is the second half of the rally that was the opening session of the Congress of Racial Equality’s National Convention and 24th anniversary, held at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California on June 30, 1967. The speakers on the first reel were Dick Gregory, Muhammad Ali, and Donald Warren. The second reel includes founder…

  • Memorial service for James Chaney

    Actuality of a service for a slain civil rights worker, James Chaney, held in his home town in Meridian, Mississippi on August 7, 1964. The principal speakers at the service were David Dennis of CORE and assistant director of the Mississippi summer project and the Reverend Edward Camp, chaplain at Tougaloo College. Includes a speech…

  • The sit-ins and the New South

    Priscilla Stephens, winner of the Gandhi Award from the National Congress of Racial Equality gives a first-hand account of the student protests in Florida, speaking under the auspices of SLATE at University of California. Stephens speaks to the audience about testing bus lines for civil rights in the South, sit-ins, freedom rides, and other nonviolent…

  • Lunch counters and jails

    W. H. Larkin, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality discusses the reasons for and techniques utilized in the Civil Rights Movement in this interview by Elsa Knight Thompson. Larkin recounts his experiences in the sit-ins at Tallahassee, Florida lunch counters, arrests, and the ensuing trial and prison time, as well as a march…