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This is a 1959 photo of New York CORE member Evie Rich with her son, Gordon. She is walking the picket line in midtown Manhattan. According to the Amsterdam News, it was “the first major protest demonstration against airline job discrimination on…

This is a 1975 photo of New York CORE member Lucy Komisar. A member of the chapter when they were downtown, she continued to work in the chapter until mid 1962. She was also a Freedom Rider, for which she was arrested in December of 1961.
She also…

This is a photo of Northwest New York CORE chairman Marie Witherspoon (Black woman, left) protesting with Coretta Scott King (right), the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King. She is also the mother of chapter member Fatima Cortez Todd. They are shown…

This is a 1964 photo of (left to right) Queens CORE chairman George Kaufman, Bronx CORE chairman Herb Callender and Brooklyn CORE chairman Isiah Brunson taken right before the World's Fair Stall-In. All three chapters, along with Harlem CORE,…

This is a photo of NYU CORE chairman Gerald 'Jerry" Bornstein taken from a 1965 copy of NYU's student newspaper. Professor Bornstein later became the Deputy Chief Librarian at Baruch College and was the author of several book, such as 'The Wall Came…

This is a 1965 photo of NYU CORE demonstrating on campus. The chapter was protesting the NYU’s association with the First National City Bank which had been accused of practices which supported segregation in the South.

The photo is of the front…

This is a photo of the second Brooklyn CORE chairman Ollie Leeds (Black).

Leed's parents were from Grenada. He spent 3 1/2 years in the Army and was a decorated WWII veteran. He was also an early member of the Negro History Association.

He…

This is a 1968 photo of East River CORE's last chairman Omar Abu Ahmed (right, bald head) standing next to SNCC chairman H. Rap Brown (left, sunglasses).

As an active member of Harlem CORE, Ahmed attended the March on Washington. He was one of…

This is a photo of well known actor Ossie Davis participating in Brooklyn CORE's week long sit in at the Board of Education in 1962.

Davis, who with a his wife Ruby Dee, were known to go out of their way to participate in the movement and…