Series: Series 5: Departments and Related Organizations, 1946-1967

Subseries: Community Relations Department
Scope and Content Note

The Community Relations department of CORE came into being toward the end of 1959, when Marvin Rich was employed as director of the new department. Its function was to deal with public relations and the fund-raising aspects of CORE. Although the records begin with 1954, most are dated from 1960 to 1964. Included with this material are records that pre-date the formation of the department, chiefly concerning CORE's financial affairs. Before Marvin Rich took over, James Robinson and Lula Farmer were in charge of finances, and their appeal letters, accounts, and invoices appear here.

Files of the Community Relations Department are groups under these headings: Finance, Legal Matters, Local Chapters, National Projects, Other Organizations, Publicity and Fundraising, Regional Office, and Miscellany.

The largest quantity of material is concerned with the local CORE chapters and with publicity and fundraising for national CORE. Records under the heading “Local Chapters” deal chiefly with public relations problems. However, there is also a large amount of material concerning the chapters' internal problems and local projects. The responsibility for communicating with the local CORE chapters does not seem to have been confined to one particular national CORE department, such as Community Relations, but to some extent belonged to all departments. Therefore, in the correspondence of the “Local Chapters” one may find reports from CORE field representatives, and various other papers which are sometimes more important than the public relations material relating to the chapters.

There is much less material under the remaining subject headings. The correspondence with other organizations is generally concerned with public relations. The legal records, while not numerous, are of some importance since they cover a wide range of topics. The records concerning the national projects of CORE (those co-ordinated through the national office) are especially significant for the information they give concerning the Freedom Rides of 1961 and the Mississippi Summer Project of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) in 1964, in which the Community Relations Department of CORE played an important role.

It should be noted that there is much overlapping material under these subject headings. For instance, if a researcher wanted to study the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee's (SNCC) relationship with CORE, he would have to look in at least three places in the Community Relations department records: under “Other Organizations”; under “National Projects,” Mississippi COFO project, since SNCC was part of COFO; and under various “Local Chapters” headings in Mississippi, since it was impossible to completely separate the COFO records from the local chapter materials.

Finances

Annual reports, accounts, and field expense reports, 1954-1957

Annual reports, accounts, and related correspondence

1958

1959

1960

1961-1965

Paid invoices

1958 June-August

1958 September-October

1958 November-December

1959 January-February

1959 March-May

1959 June-August

1959 September-October

1959 November

1959 December

1960 January

1960 February

1960 March

1960 April

1960 May

1960 May (continued)

Miscellany

1948-1949

1960-1963

1964-1965, undated

Legal Matters

Committee of Inquiry into the Administration of Justice in the Freedom Struggle, 1962-1964

Louisiana, Baton Rouge (Murphy Bell), New Orleans (Collins, Douglas and Elie), 1960-1962

Louisiana, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, 1963-1964, undated

Mississippi, 1961-1964

New York, New York City (Carl Rachlin, George Schiffer), 1959-1963

New York, New York City, 1964-1966, undated

South Carolina, 1961-1963

Miscellany, 1956-1965, undated

Local Chapters

Correspondence with group chairmen and contact list, 1959-1965, undated

Alabama

General, 1962-1964

Newspaper clippings, 1963, 1965-1966

Huntsville, 1960-1962

Montgomery, 1963

Selma, 1965

Arizona

Phoenix, 1964

Tucson, 1960-1964

Arkansas, 1962-1964

California

Berkeley

1959-1960

1961-1965

Los Angeles

1955-1960

1961

1962-1964

1965-1966

Mid-Peninsula CORE (Palo Alto), 1964

Oakland, 1961, 1964

Richmond-El Cerrito, 1959-1963

San Diego, 1959-1965

San Fernando Valley, 1961, 1964

San Francisco

1958-1961

1962-1965

Santa Clara Valley, 1960-1964

Santa Monica Bay Area, 1960-1964

Various chapters, 1962-1964

Colorado, Denver, 1960-1964

Connecticut

New Haven, 1960-1965

Miscellany, 1961-1964

District of Columbia, Washington

1951-1960

1961-1964

Florida

Big Bend Voter Registration Project (Tallahassee), 1964

Miami

1958-1959 July

1959 August-1965

Quincy, North Florida Citizenship Education Project

1964 January-August

1964 August- 1965

St. Petersburg, 1959-1961

Tallahassee

1959-1960 July

1960 August-1964, undated

Miscellany, 1960-1964

Georgia

Americus, 1963-1964, undated

Miscellany, 1961-1966

Illinois

Chicago

1957-1960

1961 January-October

1961 November-1965

East St. Louis, 1958-1961, 1964

Miscellany, 1960-1964

Indiana, Indianapolis, 1964

Iowa, Des Moines, 1964

Kansas, Kansas City, 1964

Kentucky

Lexington

1958-1960

1961-1964

Louisville, 1958-1963

Madison County, 1960-1962

Northern Kentucky CORE (Covington), 1960-1961

Louisiana

General, 1961, 1963-1964

Baton Rouge

1960-1962 May

1962 June-1965

Bogalusa, 1965

Jackson Parish (Jonesboro), 1964-1965, undated

Monroe, 1963-1965

New Orleans

1959-1960

1961-1965

Plaquemine, 1963-1965

Shreveport, 1961-1963

West and East Feliciana, 1964

Maryland

Baltimore

1957-1959

1960-1965

Various chapters, 1961-1964

Massachusetts

Boston

1958-1960

1961-1965, undated

Brandeis University (Waltham), 1961-1965

Springfield, 1965 August

Michigan

Ann Arbor

1957, 1960

1961-1965

Detroit

1959-1961 July

1961 August-1965

Various chapters, 1961, 1964

Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1962

Mississippi

General

1962-1964 October

1964 November-1965, undated

Church burnings, 1964

Jackson, 1961-1964

Madison County (Canton), 1964-1965

Meridian and Philadelphia, 1964-1965

Missouri

Columbia, 1959-1963

Kansas City, 1959-1964

Saint Louis

1952-1961

1962-1966, undated

Various chapters, 1963-1964

New Jersey

Bergen County, 1961-1964

Newark-Essex County, 1960-1964

Various chapters, 1964

New York

Bronx (Northwest New York), 1963-1964

Brooklyn, 1960-1964

Buffalo

Long Island, 1963-1964

Nassau College, North Bellmore, 1962

New York City

City College of New York, 1960-1962

Columbia University, 1964

Downtown CORE, 1963-1964

East River CORE (Harlem), 1962-1964

Education-school project, 1960-1964

Employment-building trades, 1963

Hospital strike, 1962

Housing discrimination, 1961-1962

New York CORE, 1954, 1958-1965

New York University, 1962-1963

Parents' Committee Mississippi Project, 1964

Police brutality, 1964

Queens College, 1963-1964

Seven Arts Chapter, 1963-1964

Staten Island, 1961, 1964

Rochester, 1961, 1963-1965

South Jamaica, 1964

Suffolk County, 1964-1965

Syracuse, 1962-1964

Miscellany, 1961-1965, undated

North Carolina

General, 1962-1964

Chapel Hill, 1963-1965

Durham, 1961-1964

Greensboro, 1962-1963

High Point, 1962-1963, undated

North Dakota, Grand Forks, 1964

Ohio

Cincinnati, 1961-1965

Cleveland, 1963-1965

Columbus, 1961-1964, undated

Dayton

1962-1963

1964 January

1964 February-December, undated

Middletown, 1964

Toledo, 1963

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, 1963

Tulsa, 1964

Oregon, Eugene, 1964, undated

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1961-1963

1964-1965, undated

Rhode Island, Providence, 1964

South Carolina

Rock Hill (York County), 1961, undated

Sumter, 1961-1965

Miscellany, 1960-1961, 1964-1965

Tennessee

Fayette and Haywood Counties

1960

circa 1961 January

1961 February-1963

Knoxville, 1963

Lebanon, 1962-1963

Oak Ridge, 1963-1964, 1967, undated

Various chapters, 1961-1963, undated

Texas

Dallas, 1962-1965

Houston, 1963

Virginia

Arlington, 1964

Charlottesville, 1961

Danville, 1963

Petersburg and Richmond, 1958-1959

Portsmouth, 1958-1959

Washington, Seattle, 1962-1965, undated

West Virginia, Wheeling, 1963-1964

Wisconsin

Kenosha, 1964

Madison, 1961, 1964

Milwaukee, 1964

National Projects

Churches, 1964

Cultural Committee, 1963

Employment

Boycott of Mississippi products, 1964-1965

Harlem Action Group - Mobilization for Youth, 1963-1964

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

Sealtest Co., New York, 1962-1963

Miscellany, 1953, 1961-1965, undated

Freedom Rides

General correspondence (including applications)

1961 January-June

1961 June-1965

Advance correspondence and plans (including pamphlets on 1947 rides), 1960-1961 May

Correspondence of and about released Freedom riders, 1961 June-1963

Legal and financial aspects, 1961-1962, undated

Housing

Information, 1958-1959, 1962-1965

Miscellany, 1957-1959, 1961-1965, undated

Legislative attempts

Anti-filibuster campaign, 1958-1959

Republican National Convention Campaign, 1964

Louisiana Voter Registration Project

Correspondence, 1962-1965

Complaints

1963 April-August

1963 August-October

Mississippi, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO is CORE, SCLC, and SNCC)

Community Centers, Freedom Schools, Voter Registration, 1962-1964 May

1964 June-October

1964 November, undated

New York World's Fair demonstration, 1963-1964, undated

Public Accommodations

Freedom Highways, 1961-1963

Theatres, 1961, 1964, undated

Variety store project (Woolworth's and others), sit-ins, negotiations, boycott

1960 January-July

1960 August-December

1961-1963

Miscellany, 1960, 1963-1964, undated

Summer projects, 1960, 1962-1965
Note: See also Mississippi and Louisiana.

Voter Registration

Community Voter Registration Project (Roxbury, Massachusetts), 1964

Legislative attempts

Civil Rights Act (1964), 1963-1964, undated

Political conventions, 1960, 1964

Voter Education Project
Note: See also Organizations: Southern Regional Council.

1962-1963

1964-1965

Miscellaneous projects, proposed and actual, 1960-1964

Other Organizations

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, 1964

American Civil Liberties Union, 1961-1965

American Committee on Africa, 1958-1959, 1962-1964

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1961-1964

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, 1958, 1962-1964

American Friends Service Committee, 1960-1964

Americans for Democratic Action, 1958, 1960-1964

Civil Rights Information Service, 1963-1964

Committee for the Employment of Negro Performers, 1962-1963

Cornell (University, Ithaca, New York) Committee Against Segregation, 1961-1963

Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1957-1960, 1964

Hate groups, 1965

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 1962-1964

International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, 1961-1964

Labor unions, 1958, 1961-1964, undated

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

1960-1963

1964-1965

League for Industrial Democracy, 1962-1965

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1963-1965
Note: See also Miss. CORE, COFO.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1956-1964
Note: See also COFO.

National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, 1960

National Student Association, 1961-1964

The Northern Student Movement, 1962-1964

Religious

Catholic, 1960-1964

Jewish, 1958-1964

Protestant, 1958-1964

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1958-1964

Southern Regional Council, 1961-1963
Note: See also Voter Education Project under Voter Registration, National Projects.

Student and youth groups, 1958, 1960-1964

Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee, Voter Registration, 1960-1965, undated
Note: See also Mississippi CORE, National projects, COFO.

Students for a Democratic Society, 1962, 1964

Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1960-1963

United Auto Workers, 1958, 1962-1964

United States Government

Federal, 1958-1964, undated

Local (state and municipal), 1962-1964

Workers' Defense League, 1962-1964

Young Men's Christian Association and YWCA, 1959-1964

Miscellaneous groups

1950-1959

1960-1962

1963-1965, undated

Publicity and Fundraising

Associate Membership Drive, 1963-1964

Benefits

Artists for CORE, 1963-1964, undated

Baldwin, James, Tour, 1962-1963

“Ballad of the Winter Soldiers”: play, New York, 1964-1965

Gregory, Dick, Tours, 1962, 1964

“The Living Premise”: show, New York, 1963 May

Roosevelt, Eleanor, luncheons, 1960-1961

Miscellaneous, 1959-1964, undated

Cocktail Party, 1961 April

Contributions

1958-1960

1961 January-August

1961 August-December

1962

1963 January-May

1963 June-December

1964 January-April

1964 May-August

1964 September-November

1964 December-1965, undated

Films

1958-1962 February

1962 March-1965

Fund appeal letters

1956-1960

1961-1965, undated

Fundraising efforts of Walter Kaufman

Fundraising tour of Ann Moody and Gene Young, 1964

Holiday cards

Advertising brochures and designs submitted, 1960-1963

Correspondence relevant to submitted designs, 1958-1964

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1959-1963, undated

Mailing lists and relevant correspondence

1956-1958

1959-1961

1962

1963-1964

News media correspondence(including letters to the editor, etc.)

1959-1960

1961

1962

1963

1964 January-June

1964 July-December

1965, undated

Newspaper clippings (miscellaneous), 1952, 1956, 1960-1966, undated

Poems submitted for CORE's use, 1960-1964, undated

Press releases

1960 July-December

1961 January-August

1961 September-December

1962 January-May

1962 June-December

1963

1964 March-July

1964 August-December

1965 January-May

1965 June-1966 February

undated

Press statements by James Farmer (including press conferences, interviews, etc.), 1962-1965, undated

Press statements by National CORE, 1948, 1964-1965, undated

Publications

Amsterdam News column by James Farmer, drafts and printed copies, 1965, undated

Bibliographies, 1962, undated

“The Congress of Racial Equality and Its Strategy,” article by Marvin Rich published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 357 (Jan., 1965), pp. 113-118, correspondence and related materials, 1964-1965

The CORE-lator, material for issues #74-77, 1958-1959

CORE-lator miscellany

“Cracking the Color Line,” pamphlet by Jim Peck published in 1960, correspondence and related materials, 1959-1960

“A First Step Toward School Integration,” pamphlet by Anna Holden published in 1958, correspondence and materials used for preparation, 1956-1958

“Free and Equal,” correspondence and prospectus for proposed periodical, 1964

Freedom Ride, book by Jim Peck published in 1962, correspondence concerning, 1961-1962

Galley proofs for CORE pamphlet, 1962?

“Jailed-In!,” pamphlet by Thomas Gaither published in 1961, correspondence and preliminary drafts, 1961

Printers' correspondence

1957-1962 August

1962 September-1964, undated

“Sit-ins: The Students Report,” pamphlet by P. Stephens and others, published in 1960, correspondence and preliminary drafts, 1960

Smith, Lillian, correspondence, 1946, 1958-1964, undated

Copies of CORE pamphlets and brochures

Miscellaneous articles and related correspondence, 1960-1964, undated

Public service spot announcements

Record and booklet, “Sit-in Songs,” 1962

Records

Correspondence and related materials, 1962-1965, undated

“A Jazz Salute to Freedom,” correspondence concerning efforts at sale to corporations, 1963

Requests for literature

1957-1963

1964-1965

Requests for speakers

1959-1960

1961

1962-1964, undated

Sale of Freedom shirts, buttons, hats, bumper stickers, 1963-1965

Songs submitted for CORE's use

1960-1961

1962-1963

1964-1965, undated

Tote-bag project (Fayette-Haywood Counties, Tennessee), 1962-1965

Tour of expelled Florida A&M student, 1960

Miscellany

1959-1962

1963-1964, undated

Regional Offices

Northeastern, 1962, 1964, undated

Southeastern, 1964, undated

Southern

1962-1964 July

1964 August-1967, undated

Western

1962-1963 June

1963 July-December

1964 January-September

1964 November-1965, undated

Miscellany

Area Redevelopment Act material, 1963

Braden, Anne, correspondence, 1958-1962

Celebrities, miscellaneous correspondence, 1959, 1963-1964

Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner murders, AP accounts of, relevant clippings, 1964-1965

Complaints

1960-1963

1964-1965, undated

CORE reports, biographies, etc. (non-correspondence), 1960-1965, undated

CORE reports, miscellaneous non-correspondence from Val Coleman's files (assistant Community Relations director), 1962-1963, undated

Correspondence, 1960-1964, undated

Gandhi Award, 1960-1964

Inter-office memoranda, 1962-1964, 1966, undated

Larkins, William, assistant Community Relations director, miscellaneous correspondence, 1961-1962

Moore, William, correspondence and material relevant to “Freedom Walk” and murder, 1963

Non-CORE materials, 1960-1964

Personnel, 1963-1964

Requests for information

1957-1959

1960-1961 May

1961 June-December

1962-1963

1964 January-June

1964 July-1965, undated

Rich, Marvin

Community Relations director (1959-1966), miscellaneous correspondence, 1960-1963 July

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1963 September-1965, undated

South Africa, miscellany, 1965

Staff correspondence, 1957-1965, undated

Subseries: Organization Department
Scope and Content Note

The records of the Department of Organization cover primarily the period from 1957 to 1964. The position of Field Organizer was established in 1957 when James T. McCain was given the appointment. However, in 1958 the position was renamed Field Secretary to the National Office, and it was not until 1962 that the actual position of Director of the Department of Organization was established, with Mr. McCain as director.

The director of the Department is responsible for the organization within each of the CORE local chapters. He visits the chapters and submits reports concerning their progress; directs the field secretaries; handles all applications and assignments for CORE projects, such as the Task Force; and organizes training programs for project workers.

The records of the Organization Department are divided into four categories: Correspondence with Individuals, Correspondence by Subject, Local Chapters, and National Office Projects. Within the category titled, “National Office Projects” may be found a great deal of material relating to the Freedom Rides and the CORE Task Force. “Correspondence with Individuals” contains correspondence, applications, and reports concerning personnel working for the national office.

Correspondence with Individuals

Carey, Gordon, 1958-1962, 1964

Cox, B. Elton

1961-1962

1963-1964

Dennis, David, 1961-1963

Douthard, William, 1963-1964

Edwards, Claudia, 1962-1964

Feingold, Mimi, 1961-1964

Gaither, Thomas

1960-1961

1962-1963

Haley, Richard, 1960-1961

Hamilton, Mary

1962

1963-1964

Hodge, Henry

1958-1960 April

1960 May-1961

Holt, Len, 1960

Hughes, Genevieve

1960-1961

1962-1963, undated

Field Reports, 1960-1962

Johns, Major, 1960

Lockett, Winston, 1962-1963

McCain, James T.

1957-1958

1959

1960

1961-1963

1964, undated

McKissick, Floyd, 1962-1964

Perkins, Joseph P., Jr., 1960-1961

Prince, Ulysses, III, 1960

Raymond, George, 1962-1964

Reynolds, Isaac, 1962-1964

Robinson, Frank, 1962-1964

Robinson, Marvin

1960-1962

Reports, 1963-1964

Rougeau, Welden, 1963-1964

Schaefer, Jon, 1962-1964

Smith, Jerome, 1962-1963

Teer, Fredricka

1961-1962

1963

Thomas, Henry, 1961-1963

Thomas, William, 1963-1964

Tieger, Joseph H. (Buddy), 1963-1964

Tournour, Eugene, 1962-1963

Wendall, Don, 1961-1962

Correspondence by Subject

Area Redevelopment Act, 1962-1964

Articles Related to CORE

Breweries - general

California Schools, 1963-1964

Civil Rights - general

Department of Justice, 1961-1962

Depositions and Statements, 1961-1964

Europe - general, 1961-1962

FBI Case, 1961-1962

Federal Funds

Field Reports, 1963-1964

March for Democratic Schools, 1964

Metropolitan Area Coordinating Council, 1961-1963

Metropolitan Area Council of CORE, 1964

Metropolitan Council on Housing, 1963-1964, undated

Miscellaneous

National Council on Agriculture Life and Labor

National Office

Articles by CORE Members

Department of Organization, 1960-1965, undated

Field Staff, 1960-1965, undated

General, 1960-1965, undated

Memoranda, 1963-1965

Staff Meeting, 1964

National Sharecroppers Fund, 1961-1964

New York Area Housing Problem, 1962-1964, undated

Police Incidents, 1963-1964, undated

Puerto Rico - general

Report of Hispanic Faculty - Discrimination at City College of New York, 1963

St. John's University, 1962-1963

Schools

Education, 1961-1963

1964

1964, undated

Southern Regional Council Publications, 1962-1963, undated

Teacher Recruitment, New York City, 1962-1963

The 1965 Civil Rights Law / Rachlin, Carl

The Weiss Bill - New York City, 1964

Western Regional CORE Office

1959-1963

1964

Local Chapters

Alabama

Gadsen, 1963, undated

General, 1959, 1961-1963

Huntsville, 1962, undated

Montgomery, 1956, 1960, 1962, undated

Arkansas, general, 1960, 1962-1963

Arizona, Phoenix, 1960-1961, undated

California

Berkeley, 1959, 1962-1964

General, 1958-1963

Los Angeles, 1961-1964

Oakland, 1960-1962

San Diego, 1962-1963

San Fernando, 1962-1964

San Francisco, 1961-1963, undated

Santa Clara Valley, 1962-1963

Santa Monica, 1962-1963

Stockton, 1960-1962, undated

Colorado, Denver, 1961-1964

Connecticut

Bridgeport, 1961-1962, undated

General, 1960-1964

Hartford, 1962-1963, undated

New Haven, 1961-1964

Delaware, general, 1954, 1961

Florida

Tallahassee, 1960-1963, undated

General, 1959-1963, 1965, undated

Georgia

Atlanta, 1959-1961, 1963, undated

General, 1960-1962, 1964, undated

Illinois

Alton, 1961, undated

Chicago, 1959, 1961-1963, undated

Evanston, 1959-1963

General, 1960-1962

Harvey

Indiana, general

Iowa, Iowa City

Kansas

General

Hutchinson

Kentucky

Frankfort

General

Louisville, 1962-1963

Northern

Louisiana

Baton Rouge

General

New Orleans

Shreveport

Maryland

Annapolis

Baltimore

Cambridge

Cantonville

Prince George

Massachusetts, Boston

Michigan

Ann Arbor

Battle Creek

Detroit

Grand Rapids

Mississippi, Jackson

Missouri

General

Kansas City

St. Louis

Nevada

New Jersey

Bergen County

General

Middlesex - Union

Newark - Essex

New York

Area Contacts

Bronx

Brooklyn

City College of New York

Columbia University

Downtown CORE

General

Long Island Student Group

Long Island University CORE

New York

Minutes

Press, pamphlets, etc.

New York University

Queens

Rochester

Staten Island

Suffolk County

Syracuse

North Carolina

Chapel Hill

Durham

Greensboro

High Point

Monroe

Raleigh

North Dakota, Grand Fords

Ohio

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Columbus

Dayton

General

Toledo

Yellow Springs

Oregon

Eugene

Portland

Pennsylvania

General

Philadelphia

Rhode Island, general

South Carolina

Claredon County

Columbia

General

Marion County

Orangeburg

Rock Hill

Spartanburg

Sumter

Morris College

Sumter

Tennessee

General

Lebanon

Memphis

Nashville

Oak Ridge

Texas, general

Virginia

Alexandria

Arlington

Charlottsville

General

Norfolk

Petersburg

Washington (State)

General

Seattle

Washington, D.C.

West Virginia

Charleston

Huntington

Wisconsin, general

National Office Projects

A and P

Bank of America

Brotherhood Trip

Civil Rights Bill Testing Forms

Freedom Rides

Appealed Trials

Applicants - Jailed F.R.

Applications - Cancel

Applications

Appraisals

Arraignment, 1961 September

Bibliography, 1961

Bond Information

Correspondence

Film - Lockhart Agency

Final Reports

Information requests

Lists of Riders

Miscellaneous

Mississippi, 1961

Motivational Study

Original Freedom Riders, 1961

Support

Trials

Journey of Reconciliation

1947-1948

1949

Task Force

Applications

Applications, Florida

Chicago

1964 May-July

1964 August-December, undated

Circulars

Correspondence

Information requests, 1963-1964

Louisiana

1964 January, April-May

1964 May

1964 June

Reports, 1964

McCain, James T.

Miscellaneous

Mississippi

Mississippi, COFO

New Jersey, Newark

North Carolina

Commission of Inquiry into the Administration of Justice in the Freedom Struggle, 1962 May 25, 26

Subseries: Program Department
Scope and Content Note

Records relating to the work of the Program Department begin in 1959, but chiefly concern the period from 1961 to 1964. Their lack of completeness makes it difficult to describe the Department's specific functions. The Program Department was responsible for co-ordinating certain important national CORE projects, such as the Freedom Rides and the Interstate Commerce Commission projects of 1961, and the Freedom Highways project of 1962. It also organized the area conferences so that the local chapters could exchange information and co-ordinate their activities; it helped with planning the CORE Leadership Conferences, which were important in training the younger leaders in non-violent direct action methods. It investigated possible projects and made inquiries to other organizations concerning their experiences with various projects.

These records mainly consist of the correspondence of Norman Hill, who was Program Director for most of the time between 1961 and 1964. However, there are also records of Gordon Carey, who became Program Director after having been in charge of supervising the field representatives. Evidently, some of his functions as Field Director carried over into the formation of the Program Department, since there are field reports and correspondence with CORE field representatives included in the material.

Area Conferences

California, 1963-1964

Connecticut, 1963-1964

Illinois and Wisconsin, 1963-1965

Kansas (Midwest), 1964

Leadership Training, 1960-1964, undated

Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, 1964

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 1964

Michigan, 1964

Missouri, Southern Illinois, 1964

New Jersey, 1963

New York, 1962-1964

North Carolina, 1964

Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, 1964

Pendle Hill, Pennsylvania, meeting, 1957-1958

Staff conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1963-1964

Western Regional Conferences, 1962-1964

Miscellany, 1962-1963, undated

Employment

Public Accommodations: Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, 1962-1964, undated

Western Electric Project, 1963

Freedom Highways

Howard Johnson's Project

1962 January-May

1962 June

1962 July-October

1962 November-1963, undated

Freedom Rides

Route #40, correspondence and related materials, 1961-1962, undated

Route #40, test results, 1961

Interstate Commerce Commission Project (Greyhound, Illinois Central Railroad, Trailways Facilities)

Correspondence and testing forms

1960-1961 November

1961 November

1961 November, circa 1961?

1962-1964

Legal Matters, 1961-1963, undated

Local Chapters, 1961-1964
Scope and Content Note: Including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin.

Other Organizations

Committee for the Employment of Negro Performers (CENP), 1961-1962, undated

(National Student) Federal Aid to Education (FATE), 1963-1964

Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1961-1963

Labor groups, 1962-1963, undated

League for Industrial Democracy (LID), 1964, undated

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1960-1962, undated

Northern Student Movement, 1962-1964, undated

Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1961-1963

Southern Interagency Conference, 1961-1963

Southern Regional Council, 1960-1963

Student groups, 1962-1964, undated

Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960-1963, undated

Union negotiations with CORE, 1962-1964

United States Government, 1963, undated

Miscellaneous groups, 1960-1964, undated

Projects

Fayette-Haywood Counties, Tennessee - Tote bag projects, 1961-1963, undated

Housing, 1961-1963, undated

School Bond project

1961-1963 January

1963 February-1964, undated

Worlds Fair (New York, 1964), 1962-1964, undated

Miscellany, 1949-1964, undated

Miscellany

Correspondence and memoranda

1959-1962

1963-1964

Newspaper clippings, reports, etc. (non-correspondence), 1960-1965, undated

Requests for information and/or literature, 1962-1964

Subseries: Core Southern Education Project (CSEP)
Scope and Content Note: The CORE Southern Education Project began as the CORE Books for Mississippi project. Benjamin A. Brown was put in charge of this volunteer organization in 1963, when it became an autonomous project within national CORE, working in co-ordination with the other departments. Efforts were directed toward raising money and supplying equipment for the CORE (COFO) Community Centers in the South. This included everything from soliciting books for the center libraries from individuals and publishers, to getting mimeograph machines, typewriters, cameras, and other equipment for the use of CORE field offices and representatives. These records consist almost entirely of correspondence from the files of Ben Brown.

Benefits

Art Show, 1964

Miscellany, 1962-1964, undated

Contributions (money and equipment)

1963-1964 March

1964 April-May

1964 June

1964 July

1964 August-September

1964 October, undated

Reports, memoranda, staff correspondence

1963-1964 June

1964 July-1965, undated

Miscellany, 1963, undated

Subseries: Scholarship, Education, and Defense Fund (SEDF)
Scope and Content Note

The CORE Scholarship, Education, and Defense Fund developed into an autonomous organization after having been a part of national CORE, in much the same way as the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund came into being. The records here date from 1960 to 1965, while SEDF was still part of national CORE under the direction of Marvin Rich, who also was in charge of the Community Relations Department of CORE. This material, while sparse, is important because it concerns the origin of what is now a separate organization concerned with raising funds for legal expenses and educational purposes in the South. In 1966, SEDF broke away from CORE and changed its name to the Scholarship, Education, and Defense Fund for Racial Equality (SEDFRE), headed by Marvin Rich. Its aims remain more similar to those of national CORE as CORE was in the early 1960's, rather than to those of the more militant route taken by the national CORE of today.

In 1967, the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality (SEDFRE) presented its records to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. These will be organized as a collection separate from these CORE records.

Correspondence and related materials

1960-1963

1964-1965, undated