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Summary Information
Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter: Records 1959-1978
- Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter (N.Y.)
Mss 947
0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of the Brooklyn, New York Chapter of CORE, co-founded in 1962 by Oliver and Marjorie Leeds, covering primarily the period 1962-1967 and consisting of its constitution, newsletters, minutes, correspondence and records of committee activities. Included are records detailing exchanges with the national CORE organization, information on housing, employment, and sanitation related activities, records from education committees, and information on an Independent School District for Harlem. In addition, there are records pertaining to the deportation hearing of Joanne Santiago, the Bibuld family's attempt to enroll their children in an all-white school, a poem by Marjorie Leeds entitled “Little Yellow School Bus” about the bus transporting children across the desegregation lines, and a letter from Senator Robert Kennedy. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00947
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