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About Core-CA
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What is Core-California? |
The
Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, is the third oldest of
the major historical Civil Rights organizations which in
began in the 1940’s 50’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
In 1969, CORE National, there arose out of
the New York State organization and New York City Chapters, a new younger
leader Roy Innes, who with his team began to return CORE National to
some of its basic tenants that still needed attention, such as
following up on case work and initiating mobilizations where
needed. CORE also
became fiscally self sustaining for the first time in may
years. CORE National has been headed by Roy Innes from 1969
through the present. In
addition to administration of Welfare to Workfare training and
other youth and elderly programs, CORE has for the past 19
years sponsored the Annual Martin Luther King Harmony Awards
in Manhattan and in the Summer another Awards Event with a
summer street festival occupying all of Times Square. The
previous year’s Keynote addresses included First Lady Laura
Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
In 1989, after an
agreement with national Chairman Roy Innes, Celes King III
organized the California State Organization of CORE.
Celes King III served as the State Chairman from 1989-2003. Core-CA quickly
acquired an impeccable record in aggressive pursuit of protecting individual
and group civil rights.
It was in a
period after the Resurrection City experiment when almost all
of the other State Organizations and Chapters around the
Nation were either dormant or still in the process of phasing
out when along comes California Bail Bond Industry leader and
renown civil Rights Fighter Celes King III.
Celes King III also happened to be a very popular
veteran of that World War II noble experiment, the Tuskegee
Airmen, the only Black Air Fighter Squadron in the entire War.
These young Black Men manned the only Fighter Squadron
in the War which never lost any of the hundreds of
Bombers it escorted over occupied Europe.
Celes King
served as President of the Los Angeles
City human Relations Commission and in that capacity
created the first “Rumor Control Operation and other
innovations in the wake of the 1965 Watts Rebellion.
Celes King State Chair of CORE-CA frequently joined
with NAACP, Urban League and all of the other Civil Rights and
Civil Liberties oriented organizations in press conferences
and mobilizations and even conducted hearings on the firing of
the Police Chief.
(See
the full article written by Adrian Dove, State Chairman) |
