PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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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: -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.).
Detailed explanation-4: -SCLC. Marches, protests, and demonstrations throughout the South, using churches as bases. SNCC. Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters all across the South; registering African Americans to vote, in hopes they could influence Congress to pass a voting rights act.