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Congress of Racial Equality

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Spiver Gordon oral history interview

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2119
Scope and Contents

This small collection is made up of a single audiocassette of a January 1984 interview with Spiver Gordon, a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who served in Plaquemine, Baton Rouge, and Monroe, Louisiana. The interviewer is unidentified. 45 minute recording, side 1 only.

Dates: Created: 1984; Other: Date acquired: 11/03/2011

Connie Harse papers

 Collection
Identifier: 573
Scope and Contents The Connie Harse papers include materials gathered or produced by Harse related to her years in New Orleans, and specifically her membership in the Congress of Racial Equality. Materials include photographs of CORE demonstrations against lunch counter segregation in New Orleans and an issue of the CORE-lator with an article on the demonstrations, photographs of St. Charles Avenue, Charles DeGaulle's visit to New Orleans, an anti-nuclear demonstration at...
Dates: Created: 1959-1965; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1999

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