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Primarily, the Brooklyn chapter of CORE used community-based activism which made it one of the most influential chapters in history. In 1964, the group held a Stall-In, deliberately preventing the flow of traffic to the World Fair with the goal of drawing attention to racial discrimination, which was one of their main focuses.
Participants in a conference on October 22, 1992, "Erasing the Color Line in the North", attended by both Houser and Farmer, agreed that the founders of CORE were Jim Farmer, George Houser and Bernice Fisher. [24] James Farmer, in his book Lay Bare The Heart, discusses "CORE IS BORN" (Chapter 10). He mentions Bob "Chino" (the Hispanic nickname ...
The publication of this work was preceded by an article published by Park in 1915; [4] a modified version of this work appears as Chapter 1 [5] in The City, edited by Park and Burgess (1925). [5] The article - considered to be the primer for the Chicago School of Sociology - is one of the most important urban models in the 20th century. [6]
The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of ninety essays published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company of Chicago. It was initially published quarterly in twelve volumes, then republished in 1917 by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles as a four-volume set.
The Chicago Better Housing Association (CBHA) is an open housing organization created in the 1950s to counter discrimination in the allocation of housing in the United States. The group campaigned for open housing legislation, and later planned and commissioned several affordable housing schemes and other improvements in the Chicago area.
Chapter (religion), an assembly of members in a religious order; Chapter house, a building attached to a cathedral or collegiate church; Chapter house (Navajo Nation), an administrative division on the Navajo Nation; Chapter (Navajo Nation), the most local form of government on the Navajo Nation; Chapter Arts Centre, a cultural centre in ...
Columbia's Core Curriculum, the Common Core at Chicago, and the Core Curriculum at Boston University, each heavily focused on the "great books" of the Western canon, are prominent examples of Classic Books programs that the majority of enrolled students participate. Fordham University's Honors Program at Rose Hill incorporates the Great Books ...
The two films are closely related and document the unrest of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, follow the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers, and refute the city of Chicago's media cover up of Fred Hampton’s death. In 1969 they released a seven part educational film series Urban Crisis and the New Militants in an attempt to update ...