In the Unknown Soldiers / Unsung Heroes Oral History Project, the Missouri Historical Society examined the participation of young people in St. Louis’s civil rights movement. The project focused on the role of the St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality (CORE) for a 10-year period beginning in 1948, and the activism by a group of high school students in the NAACP Youth Council in 1960 and 1961. Both groups primarily targeted segregated eating facilities. In 2007, the Missouri Historical Society published a set of three teachers' manuals, Liberty’s Legacies: Historical Perspectives on Liberty, Equality, and Reform, one of which was based upon this oral history project: Unknown Soldiers / Unsung Heroes: Youth Activism in the St. Louis Civil Rights Movement, 1948-1961: A Teacher Resource Manual (MHS Library: St.L / 323.1 / Un58). It included a timeline of significant events in the St. Louis civil rights struggle from 1936 to 1968. The manual also contained interview excerpts, reproductions of significant documents, and biographical information for eleven of the twelve people interviewed. The St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality (CORE) began in 1947 with a group of primarily progressive college students, mostly from Washington University, Intergroup Youth high school students, and teachers interested in racial justice. The integrated group was greatly influenced by Bernice Fischer and the teachings of Gandhi. It worked persistently to end segregation in restaurants, hotels, and in employment practices. The teacher resources manual provided a brief history of the lesser-known NAACP Youth Council: "The NAACP Youth Council dates to 1937 when the adult membership saw the need to develop youth leadership. By 1958 the St. Louis group was defunct when the Youth Council President William L. Clay, Sr., in a rift with the adult body, left the NAACP. The bulk of the Youth Council left with him and together they joined CORE transforming the small group onto a mass organization. Two years later in 1960, local NAACP President Margaret Bush Wilson revived the Youth Council. This new Council consisted largely of high school students, mostly from Vashon [High School]." (p.28)