During the period covered by these Papers Alan Gartner was chairman of the Boston, Massachusetts, area chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. This position enabled his membership in CORE's National Action Council and in the Council's Steering Committee. In 1964, he served as treasurer of CORE, and in 1965, he resigned from the Boston chapter to assume a CORE staff position as director of its Fund-Raising Department. By 1968, he had left CORE and was associated with the New Careers Development Center at New York University.
