Formation and role of groups supporting civil rights and their ideas for change

Question 1

What are the four main groups?

Answer 1

1. The National Association For The Advancment of Coloured People (NACCP)
2. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
3. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
4. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee (SNCC)

Question 2

NACCP?

Answer 2

The National Association For The Advancment of Coloured People

→ Aimed to achieve racial equality through legal challenges to segregation
→ Won the Brown v. Board of Education case (1954)
→ Thurgood Marshall (lead lawyer, later Supreme Court Justice)
→ Founded in New York City in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois and other activists

Question 3

CORE?

Answer 3

→ Aimed to end segregation through nonviolent direct action
→ Led the 1961 Freedom Rides across the South
→ James Farmer (co-founder and leader)
→ Founded in Chicago in 1942 by James Farmer and students from the University of Chicago

Question 4

SCLC?

Answer 4

→ Aimed to promote civil rights using nonviolent mass protests
→ Organised the 1963 Birmingham Campaign
→ Martin Luther King Jr. (founding president)
→ Founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers

Question 5

SNCC?

Answer 5

→ Aimed to empower young African Americans to fight segregation
→ Launched the 1960 Greensboro Sit-ins
→ John Lewis (early chairman and activist)
→ Founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1960 by student activists, supported by Ella Baker