Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081 U.S.A.

Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]
Records, 1942-1972

The SCPC is not the official repository for the records of CORE


Document Group: CDGA

Provenance: Donated by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1954, 1956

Size: 10 inches

Restrictions: None

Microfilm: None

Finding Aid: Original checklist prepared in March 1959; collection processed and checklist revised by Anne Yoder, November 1997

This checklist is the property of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.


Box 1

Checklist

General: history, by-laws, etc.

Administration: budgets / finance

Administration: meeting / conference minutes

Administration: reports

Branches: reports, etc.

Projects: Journey of Reconciliation, 1947

Projects: interracial workshops, 1947-1954

Projects: Pledge Brotherhood Campaign, 1950-1954

Projects: dime store investigations, 1954

Projects: integration in YMCAs/YWCAs, 1954

Projects: interviews re: dairies, 1954

Projects: interviews re: education, 1954

Program Work (includes literature, etc.): 1940s-1970s

Box 2

Newsletters, 1947-1954

Pamphlets / Booklets

George Houser: correspondence re: amnesty, 1945-1947

George Houser: correspondence with/about Break With Conscription Committee, 1946-1947

George Houser: correspondence with/about conscientious objectors, 1942-1946

George Houser: correspondence re: attacks against CORE, 1950-1955

George Houser: correspondence re: CORE workshops, 1949-1953

George Houser: correspondence re: CPS controversy, 1946

George Houser: correspondence with/about Labor Pacifist Fellowship, 1945

George Houser :Correspondence with/about Peace Now, 1943-1944

George Houser: correspondence with/about Resist Conscription Committee, 1948

George Houser: scrapbook -- Journey of Reconciliation, 1947

George Houser: scrapbooks -- interracial workshops, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954

[photographs removed to Photograph Collection]

Note: See also the Fellowship of Reconciliation Collection (DG 013), the Igal Roodenko Papers (DG 161), and the collected papers of George Houser (CDGA).

  


Swarthmore College Peace Collection

For more information, contact Wendy Chmielewski, Curator, at
wchmiel1@ swarthmore.edu
or call 610-328-8557.

For other resources, see the college's online library catalog (Tripod).
 

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