“This is CORE” (page 1)

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in 1941 and evolved out of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, sharing with it a belief in nonviolent resistance to segregation and discrimination. CORE focused its early efforts on sit-in demonstrations and later organized the Freedom Rides in which integrated buses traveled into the South to protest segregated interstate travel. The founders of CORE, including James Farmer, George Houser, James R. Robinson, and Bernice Fisher, took inspiration from the teachings and actions of Mahatma Gandhi, as illustrated on the cover of this brochure.