CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
A national organization with affiliated local groups working to abolish racial discrimination by direct, nonviolent methods
38 Park Row
New York 38, New York
COrtlandt 7-0408
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Roger N. Baldwin
Algernon D. Black
Allan Knight Chalmers
Grenville Clark
Earl B. Dickerson
Harold Gibbons
E. Stanley Jones
Martin Luther King
Will Maslow
A. J. Muste
A. Philip Randolph
Ira DeA. Reid
Jackie Robinson
Arnold M. Rose
Lillian Smith
Howard Thurman
Goodwin Watson
Jerry Wurf
Charles S. Zimmerman
OFFICERS
Charles R. Oldham, chairman
Henry Hodge, vice chairman
Anna Holden, Secretary
Lula A. Farmer, treasurer
James Peck, CORElator editor
regional representatives
Walter Hayes
George M. Houser
Herbert Kelman
Frank Robinson
Rev. Charles Smith
Earl Walter
STAFF
Gordon R. Carey, field secretary
James T. McCain, field secretary
Marvin Rich, community relations director
James R. Robinson, executive secretary
January 20, 1960
Dear Miss Stephens:
Several hundred Negroes and a sprinkling of whites marched to the Greenville (South Carolina) Airport on Emancipation Day, January 1, 1960, to protest the policy of asking Negroes to leave the waiting room and go to the "Colored Lounge." Led by the Rev. J. S. Hall, Jr., Greenville CORE Chairman, and by Field Secretary James T. McCain, this nonviolent protest is a first step toward the assertion of self-respect and dignity by South Carolinians.
The Airport Demonstration took place only because of CORE's activity. It may mark a new era in the Deep South where, up to now, so few persons -- Negro or white -- have dared to make any frontal attack on the evil of segregation.
The protest took place in spite of threats from the Ku Klux Klan. CORE leaders combined bravery with imagination, and energy with self-sacrifice. This is the spirit which can change the entire pattern of race relations in America.
CORE was able to stimulate this and many other actions across the country because many of its members have given generously during the fiscal year begun last June 1st. Unfortunately, you are not one of these -- in spite of your help in previous years. For our ongoing program. we need your donation now.
As I wrote you in mid-September, CORE is facing a desperate financial crisis. In spite of the support of many of our members, this crisis is continuing because several thousand members who have given in the past have not yet done so this year.
Won't you send your substantial aid now -- in time to relieve our staff from constant financial worry for Brotherhood Month? For your use, I enclose a post-paid reply envelope.
Sincerely yours,
[Signature] Charles R. Oldham
National Chairman
P. S. I should tell you that our executive staff is demonstrating its willingness to make sacrifices: all four are accepting a voluntary salary reduction of 2% for 1960.
Mr. Charles R. Oldham, National Chairman
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality, 38 Park Row, New York 38
Dear Mr. Oldham:
In response to your appeal,
I enclose $................ to help sustain CORE through its financial crisis.
I pledge $................ to be paid on ................
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