congress of racial equality
- n an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
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- Mary Hamilton, The Woman Who Put The 'Miss' In Court
Mary Hamilton, a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality, was arrested at an Alabama protest and refused to answer the judge unless he called her "Miss." It was custom for white people to get honorifics, but black people were called by first names.
July 12, 2013 - NPR