AP African American Studies / Unit 4: Movements and Debates
4.6 Major Civil Rights Organizations
Notes
- NAACP: legal challenges.
- SCLC (1957, Martin Luther King Jr.): church-based nonviolent protest.
- SNCC (1960): student-led sit-ins, Freedom Summer.
- CORE: Freedom Rides.
Practice
SNCC was founded by:
1960.
The SCLC was led by:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
The Freedom Rides (1961) challenged:
CORE.
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