USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a founder and the first president of the ____
A
Nation of Islam
B
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
C
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
D
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Explanation: 

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: -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was best known for mobilizing large, nonviolent protests in places like Birmingham and Selma, aimed at moving the national conscience and pushing the federal government to support civil rights initiatives.

Detailed explanation-3: -With the goal of redeeming “the soul of America” through nonviolent resistance, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South (King, “Beyond Vietnam, ” 144).

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