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Congress of Racial Equality

US nonviolent civil-rights organization, founded in Chicago in 1942 by James Farmer. CORE first concentrated on housing, then sponsored Freedom Rides into the South in 1961 and a lengthy campaign of voter registration. Its work helped achieve such results as the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In recent years, CORE's politically conservative approach has drawn criticism from more militant African-Americans, and its role has been diminished.



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She became a member of the local chapter of the Congress for Racial Equality, or CORE, which challenged the housing and job discrimination she and her family had felt so keenly in Eugene.
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In early 1961, the Congress for Racial Equality sponsored a group of mostly young people, black and white, to ride interstate buses through the South to force racial integration of bus station facilities.
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