print email comment close History of CORE URL: http://www.core-online.org/ Description: Information about the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which "was founded in 1942 as the Committee of Racial Equality by an interracial group of students in Chicago." Includes information about the 1963 March on Washington, 1960 "sit-in" at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1964 Freedom Summer, and more. Also includes information about key individuals such as James Chaney, Andy Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were killed in 1964 while working for CORE. Publisher: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Extra Keywords civil rights segregation lynching desegregation Freedom Rides University of Chicago Library of Congress Subject Headings: African Americans -- Civil rights Black History Month Civil rights movements Congress of Racial Equality LII Database Information: Record 1008 created by Maria Brandt on 06/14/2005 Last modification on 07/05/2006 Published: 06/14/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/1008