Congress of Racial Equality

Noun

Meaning

an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

core

Hypernyms

NGO nongovernmental organization

Examples

The others were Whitney Young of the National Urban League; A. Philip Randolph of the Negro American Labor Council; James L. Farmer Jr., of the interracial Congress of Racial Equality; and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP. Source: Internet

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)Southern Christian Leadership Campaign (SCLC) -- Martin Luther King's organization -- were all proponents of meeting violence with pacifism. Source: Internet

Sanders, right, leads a sit-in organized by the Congress of Racial Equality in 1962. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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