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Remembering Marvin Rich

In Obituaries, Riders on the Rides on 7 January 2019 with Comments Off on Remembering Marvin Rich

by Dave Dennis Marvin Rich, a longtime leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who was instrumental in organizing the Freedom Rides as well as later campaigns, died on December 29, 2018. As a student at Washington University in St. Louis in 1946, Rich helped found a chapter of CORE and integrate the university. By 1961 he was working in CORE’s […]