The Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, is the third oldest of the major historical Civil Rights organizations which began in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s.  It was CORE, more than the other two older groups NAACP and Urban League, which led the massive struggle.  It was CORE, founded by James Farmer in Chicago in 1942, which created the concept of Non-Violent Resistance to laws that were immoral but which had been adhered to since the end of Reconstruction and the Plessy-vs-Ferguson decision by which the Supreme Court had enshrined the fallacious concept of ‘Separate but Equal as the law of the land.  DONATE NOW.