Title: Congress of Racial Equality. Oakland Chapter: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1962-1965

Creator:

• Congress of Racial Equality. Oakland Chapter (Calif.)

Call Number: Mss 176

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Fragmentary records of the Oakland, California chapter of CORE including an amended constitution; minutes of a 1963 meeting; announcements, agenda, and minutes of meetings of the Alameda Human Relations Commission; newsletters and correspondence of the West Oakland Freedom House, which was sponsored by Oakland CORE; several reports on integration in the local public schools; and one folder concerning discrimination in employment.

Language: English

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Oakland CORE sponsored a Freedom House community center “designed to stimulate oppressed people to change their environment and to oppose forces which oppress them.” The problems faced by Oakland residents included urban redevelopment, discrimination in the schools, on the job, and in choice of housing. In the Freedom House and in the chapter's peripheral education and employment projects, Oakland CORE's major aim was to make Oakland residents aware of and to use all the political weapons available for the advancement of the civil rights movement.

The records of Oakland CORE for the time period 1962-1965 are fragmentary and were originally scattered throughout the papers of CORE's Western Regional Office. They include a copy of the amended constitution and minutes of a meeting, 1963; announcements, agendas, and minutes of meetings of the Alameda Human Relations Commission; newsletters and correspondence of the West Oakland Freedom House; several reports on the state of integration in the Oakland public schools; and one folder concerning discriminatory employment grievances.

For further information about the Congress of Racial Equality, see the records of the national office (Mss 14), of the Southern and Western Regional Offices (Mss 85, Mss 160) and of CORE chapters and officers held at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Congress of Racial Equality, Western Regional Office, Oakland, California, December 16, 1967.

Processing Information

Processed by Eleanor Niermann, July 16, 1971.

Box   1 Folder   1	Constitution and Minutes of Meeting, 1963, July-Aug
Box   1 Folder   2	Alameda Human Relations Commission, 1962, Oct-1965, March
Box   1 Folder   3	Freedom House, 1963, Oct-1964, Nov
Box   1 Folder   4	Education, 1962-1965, March
Box   1 Folder   5	Employment, 1963, July