PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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to recruit new immigrants to the cause of civil rights
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to raise money for the election campaigns of African American candidates
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to teach potential civil rights leaders strategies for organizing nonviolent protests
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to provide African American students with the skills they needed to find work
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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: -The event that triggered the formation of the SCLC was the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955-56. Although not begun by church leaders, the movement was soon joined by Montgomery’s Black ministers, who kept the boycott alive and ensured its ultimate success.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLS) was established in 1957 after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The association was founded by ministers and elected Dr. Martin Luther King Jr the first president. The associations two goals were to end segregation and encourage African American to register to vote.
Detailed explanation-4: -The SCLC’s goals were simple: Recruit affiliate civil rights groups in the South. Bring an end to black disenfranchisement by increasing voting rights.