Documents Tagged ‘George Houser’


Letter from Hazel Pritcher to George Houser

Archive Entry Date: 06/03/1946

CORE broadened its fight for racial justice by taking on a high school's staging of a blackface minstrel show

Letter from Dick Trotter to George Houser

Archive Entry Date: 07/21/1945

Its membership growing, Peoria's CORE aimed to desegregate public pools as well as local restaurants

Letter from Dick Trotter to George Houser

Archive Entry Date: 05/16/1945

"Sit-down strikes" in eating establishments were the first protests organized by Peoria's CORE chapter

Letter from George Houser to Dick Trotter

Archive Entry Date: 04/13/1945

When an “interracial action group” formed in Peoria, the president of the Congress of Racial Equality offered his support