photo of Harlem CORE member Donald Elfe with Floyd McKissick, CORE's national director

photo of Harlem CORE member Donald Elfe with Floyd McKissick, CORE's national director

Harlem CORE member

This is a 1967 photo of Harlem CORE member Donald Elfe (center, dark suit) with Floyd McKissick (left, hand out stretched) , CORE's national director at the time. McKissick took over the position James Farmer initiating CORE's Black Power transformation. Elfe at the time was head of the commitee at Harlem CORE in charge of creating and the pushing their proposed legislation for the creation of an independent Harlem Board of Education.

The photo was taken at a Dec. 2, 1967 Black Power seminar sponsored by CORE. Panelists included Roy Innis, McKissick, and authors William Strickland, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Larry Neal and John Killens. The third man (right) in this photo is unknown.

Rights and Reviews, vol. 4 no. 1

Harlem CORE

summer 1968

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harlem 1967