t but determined crusade for human rights."
- "Lay Bare The Heart: An Autobiography of The Civil Rights Movement" by James Farmer, Copyright 1985 by James Farmer. A Plume Book, New American Library.
- PERSONAL HISTORY QUESTIONNAIRE, The City of New York, Department of Personnel, 4 pages, completed by Bernice Fisher is undated but contains these years and cities of residence: 1931 Jamestown, N.Y.; 1931-1941 Rochester, N.Y.; 1941-1945 Chicago, Ill; 1945-1946 Chicago and Detroit; 1946-1949 St. Louis, Mo.; 1953-1956 Chicago, Ill.; 1956–present Brooklyn, N.Y. (Note: Bernice was still living in Brooklyn, New York when she died in May 1966.
- Ledger No. 5281 Union Card expires December 31, 1942, Sister Bernice Fisher, Warehousemen, Loaders, Stackers and Graders, Local 688...of the I.B. of T.C.W. and H. of A. affiliated with the A. F. of L. and Honorable Withdrawal Card of Bernice Fisher, Local No. 688, is dated 9 May 1949 are in the possession of Frank W. Fisher.
- Unacknowledged Leaders: Sarah Lawrence Conference, Sisters in Struggle, Sheila Shiki y Michaels, New York, NY, 8 March 2003; Sheila Shiki y Michaels, New York, NY, 11 November 2002.
- Oral Histories, The Reminiscences of George Houser, James R. Robinson and Marvin Rich in the Sheila Michaels Oral History Collection of Columbia University in New York City.
- United Federation of Teachers newspaper, UFT Expands Union Organizing Staff page 5; my copy has only pages 5 through 8 and doesn't give the date of publication, but it contains the page 5 story, and board meeting minutes of Nov. 4 and 16, 1964 on page 8.
There is much discussion by Farmer and Houser on the founding of CORE in several issues of Fellowship magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1992 (Spring, Summer and Winter issues). and participants in a conference on Oct. 22 1992, "Erasing the Color Line in the North," attended by both Houser and Farmer, agreed that the founders of CORE were Jim Farmer, George Houser and Bernice Fisher. 
James Farmer, in his book Lay Bare The Heart, discusses CORE IS BORN (Chapter 10) and he also mentions Bob "Chino" (the Hispanic nickname for a Chinese man, by which he was widely known), and Hugo Victoreen as well as George Houser, Bernice Fisher, Jimmy Robinson, Joe Guinn, Homer Jack and himself as participants in the meeting when the organization CORE was formed. Bernice became secretary and Jimmy became treasurer.
An extensive oral history collection related to the Congress of Racial Equality is also kept at Howard University, Washington, DC 20059 and they can be found online here.
The University of Texas at Austin retains the papers of James and Lula Farmer, and the papers include material related to Bernice Fisher. The inventory of the archive is available online here.
- OF TIME AND SOUND, Requiem For A Free, Compassionate Spirit, by Ernest Galloway, published in Missouri Teamster, May 12, 1966, Page 7.
- Oral Histories The Reminiscences of James R. Robinson (January, February, March 1999) in the Oral History Collection of Columbia University in New York City.
- Oral Histories The Reminiscences of George Houser (April 1999) in the Oral History Collection of Columbia University in New York City.
- Fellowship magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation 1992, Spring, Summer and Winter issues.
- LAY BARE THE HEART: An Autobiography of the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, James Farmer, A Plume Book, New American Library, Copyright 1985 by James Farmer.
- SONG IN A WEARY THROAT: An American Pilgrimage. By Pauli Murray. Harper & Row, New York City, 1987, pp 201-209.
- "Victory without Violence, The First Ten Years Of The St. Louis Committee Of Racial Equality (CORE)," 1947-1957 by Mary Kimbrough and Margaret W. Dagen, Copyright 2000 by The Curators of the University of Missouri, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri.
- Congress of Racial Equality St. Louis Post Dispatch, January 13, 2004, by Sylvester Brown Jr., which can be accessed online..
- STLtoday - 27. CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY
- CONCORD HANDBOOK OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, 833 Mar