1963 Racial Justice Sit-Ins

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Labor Jawn
1963 Racial Justice Sit-Ins
Aug 10, 2026 Episode 86

When the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter was adopted in 1951, it established a new governmental body specifically tasked with ending race discrimination in hiring. But a decade later, little had changed. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) took on the fight to change this.

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