Emma

Call Number: ARC.002

Extent: 13.75 Linear feet, in 13 manuscript boxes, 5 record cartons, and 2 artifact boxes

The Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection consists principally of the subject files concerning 1960s civil rights activism maintained by Arnie Goldwag, an officer of Brooklyn CORE during the first half of the 1960s. These files include correspondence, newsletters, event announcements (e.g., fliers), directions for demonstrators, photographs, press releases, clippings, and other documents related to many of the actions conducted by Brooklyn CORE, particularly for the period 1961-1965. Actions represented in the collection include those protesting discrimination in employment, housing, schools, and the like, including the controversial initiative to block traffic in connection with the opening of the 1964 World’s Fair. The collection also includes reminiscences by Goldwag and other CORE members looking back from the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to Brooklyn CORE-related material, the collection includes material related to other 1960s activist groups, including those involved with civil rights, Vietnam War opposition, and draft resistance, among others.

Names:

• Committee for Peace Organization
• Goldwag, Arnold
• Lynn, Conrad J.
• Mitchell, David Henry
• Owens, Major R.
• Alliance for Jobs or Income Now (New York, N.Y.)
• Brooklyn Civil Rights Defense Committee (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
• Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Freedom & Peace Party of New York State
• Harlem Parents Committee
• Metropolitan Council on Housing (New York, N.Y.)
• New York World’s Fair (1964-1965)
• Peace and Freedom Party (U.S.)
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
• Youth Against War & Fascism
• End the Draft Committee

Places:

• Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History — Archival resources.
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• New York (N.Y.)
• New York (N.Y.) — History — Archival resources

Subjects:

• Children’s rights report
• Downdraft
• Ergo (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
• African Americans — Civil rights — New York (State) — New York
• African Americans — Education — New York (State) — New York
• African Americans — Employment — New York (State) — New York
• African Americans — New York (State) — New York
• Civil disobedience — New York (State) — New York
• Civil rights demonstrations — New York (State) — New York
• Civil rights movements — New York (State) — New York
• Civil rights workers — New York (State) — New York
• De facto school segregation — New York (State) — New York
• Discrimination in employment — New York (State) — New York
• Discrimination in housing — New York (State) — New York
• Discrimination in public accommodations — Maryland — Cambridge
• Government, Resistance to — New York (State) — New York
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
• Minorities — Civil rights — New York (State) — New York
• Police patrol — Surveillance operations
• Race discrimination — New York (State) — New York
• Rent strikes — New York (State) — New York
• Reunions
• Tenants’ associations — New York (State) — New York

Types of material:

• Books
• buttons (information artifacts)
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Correspondence
• Fliers (printed matter)
• lapel pins
• Leaflets (printed works)
• Pamphlets
• Photocopies
• Photographs
• Press releases

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