Wallace F. 'Wally' Nelson was a committed civil rights and peace activist. During the 1950s, he served as the first national field organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He directed numerous workshops on nonviolent direct action in Washington, D.C. Nelson was born on March 27, 1909, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was the […]

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