Strategies and Organizations of the CRM

1. Strategies and Organizations of the CRM Essential Question: What are the different protesting strategies of the CRM?

2. NAACP • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Formed in 1909 • Use court system to fight racism • Brown v. BOE

3. CORE • Congress of Racial Equality • Founded in 1942 • Nonviolent protesting • Organized the Freedom Rides • Helped set up March on Washington

4. SCLC • Southern Christian Leadership Conference • Formed in 1957 • Nonviolent Protests • Organized Montgomery Bus Boycott, Birmingham Protest, March on Washington

5. SNCC • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • Formed in 1960 • Nonviolent protest– Black Power in later 60s • Helped organize the March on Washington, Freedom Summer

6. VEP • Voter Education Project • Set up by SNCC, NAACP, SCLC, CORE • Aimed at voter registration and not protesting

7. MFDP • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party • Created in 1964 • Created to compete with all white Democratic Party • Politically Driven

8. The Black Panthers The Black Panthers was a militant group organized to protect blacks from police abuse. • became the symbol of young militant African Americans. • created antipoverty programs. • protested attempts to restrict their right to bear arms. Several SNCC leaders urged African Americans to use their black power to gain equality.

10. Black Muslims • Nation of Islam was biggest organization • Founded in 1930 • Promoted Black Nationalism, self-reliance, self-dependence

11. Martin Luther King Jr. • Leader of SCLC • “I Have a Dream” • Led protests in Birmingham and Selma • Nonviolent • Assassinated on April 4, 1968

12. Malcolm X • One of the leaders of Nation of Islam • Initially promoted separation of whites and blacks as well as violence at times • Left Nation of Islam and changed views • Assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965

13. Rosa Parks • Part of the Montgomery Bus Boycott • Mother of Civil Rights Movement • Died in 2005

14. Thurgood Marshall • Led NAACP in the Brown v. BOE case • Became first African American to serve on the Supreme Court • Died in 1993

15. Stokely Carmichael • Leader of SNCC • Promoter of Black Power • Participated in Freedom Rides and other city protests • Died in 1998

16. Fannie Lou Hamer • Part of SNCC and later Head of MFDP • Gave speech at the National Democratic Convention • Died in 1977

17. Huey Newton & Bobby Seale • Co-Founders of Black Panthers • Inspired by Malcolm X • Advocated violence if needed • Newton was killed in 1989, Seale is still alive

18. Black Power • Black self-determination • Some advocated force, others advocated black nationalism and organization • Wanted African Americans to take control of their futures

19. Strategies of the CRM • Nonviolence (sit-ins, marches, boycotts) • Legal Action (court cases) • Black Power (use violence, fight back) • Political

20. MLK Jr. & Malcolm X • Work with a partner • One person reads and answers the MLK Jr. sheet, the other Malcolm X • Afterwards, you both fill out the Venn Diagram together