Question

What type of work did CORE do during the civil rights movement? Check all that apply.

a. They staged sit-ins to protest segregation in public facilities.
b. They offered financial aid for court cases against segregation policies.
c. They organized marches and demonstrations against segregation.
d. They provided legal representation to African Americans.
e.They participated in the Freedom Rides from Washington, DC, to New Orleans.

Answer 1

CORE. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), founded in 1942, became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American civil rights movement. ... In 1955 CORE went into the South and provided nonviolence training to demonstrators during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.