PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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SNCC wanted to use more confrontational strategies.
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SCLC was not influenced by the leadership of Dr. King.
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SCLC felt that college students were too young to participate.
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SNCC was satisfied with the rate of progress made in civil rights.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: A) SNCC wanted to use more confrontational strategies. The SCLC and the SNCC were two civil rights groups in the 1960s. However, they had significant ideological differences. SNCC believed in the importance of grassroots activism, and was mostly formed by students.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) differ from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)? SNCC wanted to use more confrontational strategies. SCLC was not influenced by the leadership of Dr. King.
Detailed explanation-3: -Conflicts between SCLC and SNCC continued during the Albany Movement of 1961 and 1962. In the spring of 1963, King and SCLC lead mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where local white police officials were known for their violent opposition to integration.
Detailed explanation-4: -SNCC sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism. SNCC members played an integral role in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and such voter education projects as the Mississippi Freedom Summer.
Detailed explanation-5: -Beginning its operations in a corner of the SCLC’s Atlanta office, SNCC dedicated itself to organizing sit-ins, boycotts and other nonviolent direct action protests against segregation and other forms of racial discrimination.