Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Clarence Funnyé was the chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Harlem from 1964-1965. He staged a series of creative protests that promoted policies of radical integrationism and challenged "the exclusion of blacks in the media." For example, he stood on a street corner with television sets tuned to various channels and offered a dollar to whoever saw a black person on the screens (in six days there were 15 sightings).In 1963 he wrote to the Coca-Cola Company, asking that it introduce racial integration in its advertising—or face a boycott. The company first placed integrated ads in magazines such as Ebony, with its first such television commercial appearing in 1969."@en }
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- Clarence_Funnyé abstract "Clarence Funnyé was the chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Harlem from 1964-1965. He staged a series of creative protests that promoted policies of radical integrationism and challenged "the exclusion of blacks in the media." For example, he stood on a street corner with television sets tuned to various channels and offered a dollar to whoever saw a black person on the screens (in six days there were 15 sightings).In 1963 he wrote to the Coca-Cola Company, asking that it introduce racial integration in its advertising—or face a boycott. The company first placed integrated ads in magazines such as Ebony, with its first such television commercial appearing in 1969.".