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... of non-violence that can be used by mass organizations.” Similarly, CORE activists “dreamed of a mass, nationwide, interracial movement.” As early as 1944, George Houser—jailed war resister, FOR staff member, and cofounder of CORE—took the first step...

... in May 1952, he finally spoke out publicly against apartheid two months after the film’s US release. No longer tied to London Films, Lee met with George M. Houser of the AFSAR to discuss his experiences in South Africa and later followed Poitier’s lead by condemning the apartheid regime...

... students, among them George Houser who a year later would co-found CORE, ignored prison regulations and sat with black inmates in the movie theater, winning their case when exasperated prison officials decided to ignore the issue.34 In August 1943, Danbury objectors-Jim Peck now among...

... Committee (AFSC) in that city and Portlanders Organized for Southern African Freedom, whose materials were disseminated by the AFSC office. Two substantial collections relate to ACOA, whose official archive is at the Amistad Research Center. George M. Houser’s Africa Collection contains...

... paying job as an agent of social change came from the knowledge that he was break- ing new ground. Along with James Farmer and George Houser, two other young staff members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rustin was expanding the group’s mission into the field of race rela- tions...

... Thieves used to be something until they got took over by One-Lung Curran and his Gophers. They’re so scurvy only the Plug Uglies will talk to them, but who knows what they’re saying? The Slaughter housers and the Broadway Twisters. They’re a fine bunch...

..., January 1944, HADV 2-9, TUUA. On the Planning Commission’s organization see Guinther, The Direction $Cities, 90-98. Planning’s-and Bacon’s-dual role complicates the distinction drawn by Bauman between ”housers” such as Bauer and physical design-oriented planners such as Bacon, since Bacon...

...: Indiana University Press, 2004); and James Green, We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010). For overviews of US activism on Africa, see George M. Houser, “Meeting Africa’s Challenge...