EormeiL Core Director
McKissick Lectures Wed.
FLOYD, McKISSICK, FORMER CORE DIRECTOR, WHO WILL
SPEAK THURSDAY AT 8 P.M. IN DANA AUDITORIUM
Floyd B. McKissick, former
national director of the Congress
of Racial Equality, will deliver
a lecture, "The Soul and Spirit
of Soul City," Feb. 12", at
8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium.
McKissick became director of
CORE in March 1966 and led
the organization through its
transition from a white -
dominated to a separatist organization.
In 1966 CORE'S membership
was 55% white. Within one
year after McKissick succeeded
James Farmer as director,
CORE'S membership had increased from 80,000 to 120,000
and CORE had begun to de-
emphasize its original multiracial nature.
A convention of CORE
members in July of 1967 voted
to remove the word "multiracial" from all descriptions of
CORE.
BALTIMORE, THE
CITY"
'TARGET
Under McKissick's leadership, CORE concentrated on
Baltimore, Maryland, as a
"target city." In Baltimore,
Negroes were being denied ad
mittance to public accommodations.
Schools and housing were
segregated and the rate of
unemployment among blacks was
high. Blacks complained of
police brutality, and Baltimore
voters had rejected fair housing
laws three times.
In Baltimore, CORE rented
a gas station and trained high
school dropouts to run it and
organized a union of welfare
mothers and a labor union, the
Maryland Freedom Union.
"Freedom schools," which
dispensed Negro history, consumer-buying advice, and tips
on filing applications and complaints with the welfare bureaucracy, were established by
CORE.
1967 PROGRAM
The 1967 program for CORE
emphasized the need for promoting black power in the South,
building black economic power,
promoting black culture by
establishing centers of black
arts and by teaching black history, developing ties with Africa
by teaching African history and
languages and by encouraging
American blacks to help emerging African nations, and setting
up training schools for ghetto
dwellers.
. CORE members began to
advocate that blacks must have
equal economic power before
integration can become complete.
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EormeiL Core Director
McKissick Lectures Wed.
FLOYD, McKISSICK, FORMER CORE DIRECTOR, WHO WILL
SPEAK THURSDAY AT 8 P.M. IN DANA AUDITORIUM
Floyd B. McKissick, former
national director of the Congress
of Racial Equality, will deliver
a lecture, "The Soul and Spirit
of Soul City," Feb. 12", at
8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium.
McKissick became director of
CORE in March 1966 and led
the organization through its
transition from a white -
dominated to a separatist organization.
In 1966 CORE'S membership
was 55% white. Within one
year after McKissick succeeded
James Farmer as director,
CORE'S membership had increased from 80,000 to 120,000
and CORE had begun to de-
emphasize its original multiracial nature.
A convention of CORE
members in July of 1967 voted
to remove the word "multiracial" from all descriptions of
CORE.
BALTIMORE, THE
CITY"
'TARGET
Under McKissick's leadership, CORE concentrated on
Baltimore, Maryland, as a
"target city." In Baltimore,
Negroes were being denied ad
mittance to public accommodations.
Schools and housing were
segregated and the rate of
unemployment among blacks was
high. Blacks complained of
police brutality, and Baltimore
voters had rejected fair housing
laws three times.
In Baltimore, CORE rented
a gas station and trained high
school dropouts to run it and
organized a union of welfare
mothers and a labor union, the
Maryland Freedom Union.
"Freedom schools," which
dispensed Negro history, consumer-buying advice, and tips
on filing applications and complaints with the welfare bureaucracy, were established by
CORE.
1967 PROGRAM
The 1967 program for CORE
emphasized the need for promoting black power in the South,
building black economic power,
promoting black culture by
establishing centers of black
arts and by teaching black history, developing ties with Africa
by teaching African history and
languages and by encouraging
American blacks to help emerging African nations, and setting
up training schools for ghetto
dwellers.
. CORE members began to
advocate that blacks must have
equal economic power before
integration can become complete.
