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Open in new tab This letter was discovered among the papers of Arnie Goldswag, a CORE member archived at the Brooklyn Historical Society. CORE was a racially diverse collective of activists who advocated for fair housing in the city and nationwide. They serve as witnesses to the degradation and neglect that redlined neighborhoods were subjected and as testament to the idealism of the 1960’s and 1970’s in New York. Similar conditions existed in immigrant communities at the turn of the 19th century through World War II as ethnic ghettos, overcrowding and physical neglect were hallmarks of this period in New York City.