Question 7 • US History Studies Since 1877
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in 1942 and used nonviolent direct action, including sit-ins, to challenge segregation. Its early sit-ins encouraged integration in the 1940s. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were associated with other civil rights organizations, not leadership of CORE.
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