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  • Tags: community organizing

CORE balt and cleveland tcp pg1.JPG
Various documents which discuss both Cleveland and the Baltimore Target City Project. Memorandums and articles summarize youth programs, leadership training, job training, voter registration, and other TCP activities.

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Various materials related to Baltimore CORE's activities and National CORE's Black Power Project

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Newsletter outlining CORENCO/CORE efforts to partner with Warner & Swasey to bring manufacturing into the black community.

CORENCO Full Proposal.pdf
A proposal drafted by CORE to create the basis for a national community development corporation.

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Newspaper articles discuss income inequality and economic discrimination. Some discussion of Cleveland Target City Project and Ford Foundation assistance.

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A similar community development corporation emerged in Michigan. The CDC ran businesses which employed local community people. The CDC also worked on housing access for low income residents.

Muhammad Speaks June 24 1966 pg1.JPG
An article on Baltimore Target City Project. Discusses the Ku Klux Klan and its march through the black community. Explains how the black community no longer fears the Klan.

CORENCO news articles.pdf
The memorandum from Philip Carter to Will Ussery addresses the Leland Schubert contribution and notes that the Cleveland TCP will serve as a clearinghouse for all research on economic development. The second item is a memo from Jack Olive (a…