Chicago Council of Negro Organizations

CTL-E-4042 · Organization · civil-rights · 1939-1953

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Coalition founded in 1939 by Irene McCoy Gaines to protest education inequality and segregation; coordinated nearly 100 civic, educational, religious, and labor organizations.

The record

Also known as: CCNO

Notes

RELP92 supporting entity: edge endpoint for CTL-E-0890 founded.

Referenced by

Irene McCoy Gaines — founded → this record

Sources

Dirksen Center - An Early Advocate for Civil Rights (Irene McCoy Gaines)
WomensLProject - Irene McCoy Gaines

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Rickwood Field, Birmingham — historic Negro leagues ballparkPhoto: Max Wolfe, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pullman porter aboard the Capitol Limited bound for Chicago (Jack Delano, FSA-OWI)Photo: Jack Delano, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Segregated bus station, Durham, N.C., 1940 (Jack Delano, FSA-OWI)Photo: Jack Delano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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