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Founded in 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American Civil Rights Movement. Their mindset was to get rid of discrimination in the deep south against native americans. CORE’s original approach was a pacifist, non-violent approach to fighting racial segregation, but by the late 1960s this group’s leadership had shifted its attention towards the political ideal of black nationalism and separatism. On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. A lot of these protest also took place in bathrooms …show more content…

The board of education over the years had set up a pattern. For example black schools would be in the South and West sides of the city, which primarily was where their neighborhoods also were. While the white schools were in the North, NorthWest, and SouthWest white areas, and predominantly was where their neighborhoods were as well. There were many segregated schools and in these schools a lot of them had double-shifts. Double-shifts meant that kids would attend less than a full day of school in order to allow other students a chance to learn something. It’s crazy because they were so overpopulated that they even implemented mobile classroom lessons where they would meet outside and circle the school while they tried to learn and take notes. According to CORE, “school segregation was a damaging bacteria, a psychological handicap, which festered a disease generating widespread unemployment and crime in Chicago”. By 1966 the chicago freedom movement was considerably in the hands of Martin Luther King JR. and he really pushed to desegregate these chicago school and the following fall they conjoined into black and white schools but their were still problems with the bathrooms and water fountains and black kids would get beat up whether they knew or not if they had used the white …show more content…

Without CORE’s activist organization and how impactful it was in the civil rights movement, where might america stand with racial segregation today to any culture. Would we still have found a way to have equal lives with whites and blacks living side by side? Without CORE would even are most inspiring civil rights activist Martin Luther King ever risen to the occasion of doing what he did for native americans. These are the kinds of questions that we have to consider asking ourselves if we never would have stepped up and done the right thing. American citizens are grateful for the equal rights that we have today and our proud to be living in the United States which is without a doubt the land of

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“Step by step we climbed upward-where none of my people had ever before walked as a student” (Beals). This shows that schools were formerly segregated, which meant that black people couldn’t go to the same school as white people went to. Melba Patillo Beals was challenged by segregationists barring her from entering Central High School, she was challenged by people who said racial slurs and raised their fists towards her. She was challenged by becoming sad because she forgot to kiss her mother good-bye. She was challenged by being surrounded by soldiers the whole time and people looked at her as if she was different.

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The purpose of Free Rider movement was to boycott the segregation on buses, the interstate and interstate transportation, failed compliance with ruling Morgan v. Virginia, on going boycott and sit-in demonstrations in the south and more. In 1961 the activists would take interstate buses into the segregated southern United States and it went on for years to protest the United State Supreme Court that to segregated buses is not right and unconstitutional. There were 436 individuals participated in about 60 separate Freedom Rides. The results were desegregation order from Interstate Commerce Commission and it was then recognized as a serious organization. Freedom Summer Project Started in the summer of 1964 in Mississippi, organized by the Council of Federated Organizations.

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