PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, founded the SCLC in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protest activities across the South.
Detailed explanation-2: –Martin Luther King, Jr. With other Black church leaders in the South, King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to mount nonviolent protests against racist Jim Crow laws.
Detailed explanation-3: -Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. In 1957 King and other civil rights leaders established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a group to help local organizations carry out civil rights activities in the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -Inspired by the success of the Montgomery bus boycott, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was founded by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1957 to help local organizations coordinate in the fight for equal rights (Stanford University, n.d.).