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Congress of Racial Equality

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Noun1.Congress of Racial Equality - an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
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NGO, nongovernmental organization - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government


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What I'm proposing," Farmer, founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), answered without hesitation, "is that as a matter of policy in employment, we replace color blindness with color consciousness aimed at eliminating inequities based on color .
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Niger Innis National Spokesman Congress of Racial Equality
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Also honored were Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) for effectively taking up causes of minorities, and the late Brigadier General Celes King Ill of World War II's legendary all black Tuskegee Airmen, for his work with the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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