The
Congress of Racial Equality (
CORE) is a
U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for
African Americans in the
Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, CORE was one of the "
Big Four" civil rights organizations, along with the
SCLC, the
SNCC, and the
NAACP. Though still existent, CORE has been much less influential since the end of the 1955–1968 civil rights movement.