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Bell Quiz (pgs. 700-707)

Bell Quiz (pgs. 700-707). Who’s teaching did Martin Luther King Jr. base his ideas on? In what year was the SCLC founded? What was the purpose of the SCLC? Who founded the SNCC? What is a Sit-in?. Answers. Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, and Jesus. 1957

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Bell Quiz (pgs. 700-707)

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  1. Bell Quiz (pgs. 700-707) • Who’s teaching did Martin Luther King Jr. base his ideas on? • In what year was the SCLC founded? • What was the purpose of the SCLC? • Who founded the SNCC? • What is a Sit-in?

  2. Answers • Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, and Jesus. • 1957 • To carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship. • Ella Baker and students at Shaw University • A protest in which African Americans sat at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until served.

  3. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church • Earned Ph.D. in theology from Boston University. • Called for his own brand of non-violent resistance, know as “soul force”, based on the teaching of several People:

  4. Influences on MLK • Henry David Thoreau: • Concept of civil disobedience – the refusal to obey unjust laws. • Mohandas Gandhi: • resist oppression without violence. • Jesus: • love one’s enemies

  5. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) • Founded by Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1957. • Created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct nonviolent protests in the service of civil rights reform. • Its purpose was “to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship.” • Staged protests and demonstrations throughout the South.

  6. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) • A protest group founded in 1960 by Ella Baker and students at Shaw University. • SNCC hoped to harness the energy of student protesters. • SNCC adopted King’s ideas in part, but called for a more confrontational strategy.

  7. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) • CORE was founded in Chicago in 1942. • Sought to apply the principles of nonviolence as a tactic against segregation. • Staged the first Sit-ins; African-American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until served.

  8. Greensboro Sit-ins • Integral part of the nonviolent strategy of civil disobedience. • In February 1960 SNCC members staged a sit-in at Woolworth’s inGreensboro North Carolina. • A-A protestors sat down at the segregated lunch counter and refused to leave until they were served. • News coverage of the protests showed the entire United States the racism that existed in the South and the violence that resulted.

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