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Catholic Pacifist, who was a founder of
the Fellowship of
Reconciliation's Committee on Racial Equality, in Chicago, in
1942. The group became a major Civil Rights group as the
Congress of Racial Equality. Robinson kept the group on a
sound financial footing & was the second Executive Director, leading
it through the student sit-in period. He is widely credited as the
Father of direct mail fundraising. He had been a Catholic Worker
activist, was a conscientious objector in the WWII, & was interned.
Later with the American Committee on Africa, American Indian groups
& the NAACP. Oral history available at Columbia University, New
York.
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[History of CORE - Text Version] [Roy Innis] [James Farmer] [Martin Luther King] [Wilfred Ussery] [Rosa Parks] [James Chaney] |
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