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.
