Summary Information

Title: Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1959-1978

Creator:

• Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter (N.Y.)

Call Number: Mss 947

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Records of the Brooklyn, New York Chapter of CORE, co-founded in 1962 by Oliver and Marjorie Leeds, covering primarily the period 1962-1967 and consisting of its constitution, newsletters, minutes, correspondence and records of committee activities. Included are records detailing exchanges with the national CORE organization, information on housing, employment, and sanitation related activities, records from education committees, and information on an Independent School District for Harlem. In addition, there are records pertaining to the deportation hearing of Joanne Santiago, the Bibuld family's attempt to enroll their children in an all-white school, a poem by Marjorie Leeds entitled “Little Yellow School Bus” about the bus transporting children across the desegregation lines, and a letter from Senator Robert Kennedy.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00947

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