Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection. 20 boxes (13 document boxes, 5 record cartons, and 2 artifact boxes), 13.75 linear feet
Call number: ARC.002
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.
Access Points:
Personal Names
Goldwag, Arnold
Lynn, Conrad J.
Mitchell, David Henry
Owens, Major R., (Major Robert Odell)
Subject Organizations
Alliance for Jobs or Income Now (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Civil Rights Defense Committee (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Committee for Peace Organization
Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter
Congress of Racial Equality
End the Draft Committee
Freedom and 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 and Fascism.
Subject 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
Subject Titles
Children’s rights reports
Downdraft
Ergo
Subject Topics
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 – Cambridge (Md.)
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
