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EDUCATION
In an age where machines arc rapidly roplacing manual labor, job opportunities
and economic security increasingly rcquiro higher levels of oducation. We therefore demand:
1. Bettor facilities in all schools. These would include textbooks, laboratories, air conditioning, heating, recreation, and lunch rooms,
2. A broader curriculum including vocational subjects and foreign languages,
3. Low-fee adult classes for better jobs,
k. That tho school year consist of nine (9) consecutive months,
5. Exchange programs and public kindergartens,
6. Better-qualified teachers with salaries according to qualification,
7. Forced retirement (women at 62, men at 65),
8. Special schools for mentally retarded and treatment and care of cerebral
palsy victims,
9. That taxpayers1 money not be used to provide private schools,
10. That all schools be integrated and equal throughout the country,
11. Academic freedom for teachers and students,
12. That teachers be able to join any political organization to fight for Civil
Rights without fcqr of being fired,
13. That teacher brutality bo eliminated.
HEALTH
1. Each school should have fully-developed health, first aid, and physical education programs. These programs should be assisted by at least one registered
nurse.
2. Mobile units, chest x-rays semi-annually and a check-up at least once a year
by licensed doctors, the local health department or a clinic should be provided
by the local or state government.
3. AJ.1 medical facilities should have both integrated staff and integrated facilities for all patients.
4. Mental health facilities should be integrated and better staffed.
5. Hones for tho aged should be created.
6. Froo nodical care should bo provided for all those who are not able to pay the
cost of hospital bills,
7. We demand stato and. local governnont inspection of all health facilities,
8. All doctors should be paid by skill, not by race,
9. Titles should bo given to the staff.
10. The federal government should holp the organization pay the salaries of workers,
11. All patients should be addressed properly.
12. Wo actively seek the abolition of any sterilization act which servos punishment,
voluntary or involuntary, for any offense,
13. In a reasonable time we sock the establishment of a center for the treatment
and care of cerebral palsy victims.
Object Description
| Title | CORE--Political organization (MFDP, CORE, SNCC) - Memoranda, 1964-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 75) |
| Author/Creator | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District |
| Folder Description | This folder contains many undated, unattributed planning documents and policy ideas by famous people and grassroots individuals in several places. Some of the undated planning documents for a CORE meeting discuss leadership issues between local and out-of-state civil rights workers and about voter registration. There's a list of demands about conditions in Natchez. Dave Dennis presents "Freedom '68" a proposed action plan for CORE. There's an unattributed proposal to redistribute wealth without regard to race. "C.O.R.E. Northern Project: Chicago" describes tensions among Chicago's neighborhood CORE branches. The 1964 "COFO Political Program" outlines the state process for electing delegates to the Democratic National Convention and declares the MFDP's intention to participate in that process and be seated there in place of the delegates chosen by the all-white Democratic Party of Mississippi as well as to run African American candidates for congressional office. "A Brief Description of Each Element of the CORE Southern Program To Be Included in the January [1965] Workshop" describes community centers, freedom schools, community organizing, food and welfare programs, political education, and federal programs. There's also an agenda and budget for this same workshop, held in New Orleans, and a description of the purposes of "CORE Southern workshops." There's a report of CORE activities in Greensboro, North Carolina. An April 7, 1965 "Discussion Outline" questions what the role of COFO will be in the face of the Voting Rights Act, Head Start programs, the War on Poverty, and other programs that will have an impact on African Americans. "Let's Have a Peoples' [sic] Conference" written by Mike Lesser for the May 1965 CORE conference, eloquently articulates both the civil rights vs. social work issues in the movement and the question of who should lead--local people or outsiders? A memo from National CORE describes the upcoming Louisiana Summer Program. "The Election in McComb--A Report" describes the first African American running for Selectman in McComb since Reconstruction, as well as the issues and process of the campaign. There's a proposal for the creation of an MFDP that would operate in five Southern states. There's an undated, unattributed list of demands about housing, employment, education, medical care, and other issues. A letter from Lynne Hollander (CORE) to Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) asks for better communication between the two organizations regarding an upcoming SNCC-proposed People's Conference. "By-Laws of The People's Organization" is taken from Saul Alinsky's Reveille for Radicals. "Lenin on Organization" "Mao Tse-Tung on Leadership" "Josef Stalin on the Character of the Party" and a couple of poems by Bertolt Brecht seem to be reprints from a Progressive Labor publication. Part of a document by Stanley Aronowitz called "Poverty, Politics, and Community Organization" and one by S. M. Miller on "Politicization and Community Organization" are here. Selections from CORE project director Norman Hill's resignation letter call into question CORE's 1964 programs. A United Church of Christ pamphlet called "Shall We Still Betray Our Lord?" discusses the civil rights movement as an "unmistakable crisis" and concludes, "We shall betray our Lord if we take no action now." The second issue of Freedom Now discusses Alinsky, Aronowitz, and Haggstrom's ideas about community organizing. A draft of "Organizing to End Segregation" [in Madison County, Mississippi] concludes the documents in this folder. |
| State | Mississippi; Washington, D.C.; Louisiana; Alabama; Illinois; North Carolina; Georgia; Arkansas; |
| Place | Jackson; Carroll County; Natchez; Greenwood; McComb; Madison County; Canton; New Orleans; Monroe; Caddoe Parrish; Plaquemine; Chicago; Greensboro; |
| Subject | Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); voter registration; leadership; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; housing; wages; discrimination in employment; education; police brutality; arrest; murder; segregation; public welfare; Congress of Racial Equality; elections; labor unions; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); White Citizens councils; unemployment; boycotts; Freedom Democratic Club (Chicago, Ill.); Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.); Democratic Party (Miss.); Freedom Vote; food drives; United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965; Head Start programs; War on Poverty; Delta Ministry;United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; social classes; Ku Klux Klan; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; clothing and dress; agriculture; cooperative societies; United States. Department of Agriculture; Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.); medicine; lawyers; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; fund raising; poverty; community organization; |
| Personal Name | Owen, David; Brumder, Mary; Dennis, Dave; Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978; Larry (Greenwood police chief); Sampson, Charles; Whittington (plantation owner); ; Farmer, James, 1920-1999; Packard, Pat; Farris, Carl; Broyde, Sam; Rotundi, Betty; Jones, Fran; Rose, Don; Black, Tim; Coles, Joe; Rainer, Sam, Jr.; Stone, Louise; Stuckey, Sterling; Smith, Charles; Taylor, Elmore; Manhardt, Ted; Emanuel, Marsha; Barr, John; Lucas, Robert; Lockett, Winston Henry; Davis, Milton; Meyers, Debbie; Corwin, Ronald; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Houston, James Monroe; Cameron, John, Rev.; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; Nusbaum, Judi; Laizner, Elizabeth; Lesser, Mike; Mack, Freddie; Martin, L. J.; Dodds, Wilmer; Harris, Jesse; Carmichael, Stokely; Hollander, Lynne; Alinsky, Saul David, 1909-1972; Miller, S. M.; Aronowitz, Stanley; Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924; Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976; Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953; Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956; Hill, Norman, 1933-; Haggstrom, Warren C.; |
| Event Date | 1964-1965; |
| Year | 1964-1965; |
| Language | English |
| Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 75; WIHVC239G-A |
| Format | memoranda; reports and surveys; correspondence; clippings; pamphlets; newsletters; |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2014 |
| Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | fsCOREMS4thR4S75 |
| Type | Text; Image |
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| Page Text | EDUCATION In an age where machines arc rapidly roplacing manual labor, job opportunities and economic security increasingly rcquiro higher levels of oducation. We therefore demand: 1. Bettor facilities in all schools. These would include textbooks, laboratories, air conditioning, heating, recreation, and lunch rooms, 2. A broader curriculum including vocational subjects and foreign languages, 3. Low-fee adult classes for better jobs, k. That tho school year consist of nine (9) consecutive months, 5. Exchange programs and public kindergartens, 6. Better-qualified teachers with salaries according to qualification, 7. Forced retirement (women at 62, men at 65), 8. Special schools for mentally retarded and treatment and care of cerebral palsy victims, 9. That taxpayers1 money not be used to provide private schools, 10. That all schools be integrated and equal throughout the country, 11. Academic freedom for teachers and students, 12. That teachers be able to join any political organization to fight for Civil Rights without fcqr of being fired, 13. That teacher brutality bo eliminated. HEALTH 1. Each school should have fully-developed health, first aid, and physical education programs. These programs should be assisted by at least one registered nurse. 2. Mobile units, chest x-rays semi-annually and a check-up at least once a year by licensed doctors, the local health department or a clinic should be provided by the local or state government. 3. AJ.1 medical facilities should have both integrated staff and integrated facilities for all patients. 4. Mental health facilities should be integrated and better staffed. 5. Hones for tho aged should be created. 6. Froo nodical care should bo provided for all those who are not able to pay the cost of hospital bills, 7. We demand stato and. local governnont inspection of all health facilities, 8. All doctors should be paid by skill, not by race, 9. Titles should bo given to the staff. 10. The federal government should holp the organization pay the salaries of workers, 11. All patients should be addressed properly. 12. Wo actively seek the abolition of any sterilization act which servos punishment, voluntary or involuntary, for any offense, 13. In a reasonable time we sock the establishment of a center for the treatment and care of cerebral palsy victims. |
| Language | English |
| Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 75 |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2014 |
| Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
| Digital Format | JPG2000; |
| Digital Identifier | Micro 793 - Reel 4 00109 |