PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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The Congress of Racial Equality
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The Black Panthers
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The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
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Detailed explanation-1: -In June 1966, Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee shouted the words “black power” in an address to a freedom rally in Greenwood, Mississippi.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stokely Carmichael set a new tone for the black freedom movement when he demanded “black power” in 1966. Drawing on long traditions of racial pride and black nationalism, black power advocates enlarged and enhanced the accomplishments and tactics of the civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stokely Carmichael was the controversial and charismatic young civil rights leader who, in 1966, popularized the phrase “black power.” Carmichael was a leading force in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), working in the Deep South to organize African American voters.
Detailed explanation-4: -The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 in response not only to widespread lynchings of blacks in the South but also a dramatic 1908 lynching in the Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Illinois in the North.