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Title: Civil Rights Movement


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Civil Rights Movement
  • Leaders and Organizations

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Accomplishments President of SCLC, won the Nobel
    Peace Prize in 1964(youngest man to win)
  • Method of Protest Nonviolent such as marches
    and boycotts
  • Events Montgomery Bus Boycott, Clash in
    Birmingham, March on Washington, Selma March

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Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
  • Accomplishments founded the Muslim Mosque after
    leaving the Nation of Islam, gave speech The
    Ballot or the Bullet
  • Method of Protest militant political leader
    (violent), spread the idea of black nationalism-
    belief in a separate identity and racial unity in
    the African American community
  • Changed his views after going to Mecca and seeing
    people of all colors worshipping together
  • Events1963 Malcolm lead the Unity Rally in
    Harlem, gave many speeches, and also met with
    many important political leaders such as Fidel
    Castro

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Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Jackson
  • Accomplishments full time organizer of SCLC,
    founded the National Rainbow Coalition, made
    successful attempts for democratic nomination for
    president in 1984 and 1988
  • Method of Protest Nonviolent like MLK, organized
    selective boycotts to encourage white businesses
    to hire black workers and buy goods from black
    contractors
  • Events Selma March

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Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks
  • Accomplishments refused to give up her seat on a
    bus in Montgomery Alabama which lead to the
    Montgomery Bus Boycott, called the mother of the
    Civil Rights Movement
  • Method of Protest Nonviolent
  • Events Montgomery Bus Boycott

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NAACP
  • Founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Dubois, Ida Barnett,
    Henry Moscowitz, Oswald Villard, Mary White
    Ovington, and William English Walling
  • Used Nonviolent methods protest and were
    instrumental in fighting Jim Crow laws and
    segregation
  • work on behalf of all minorities to gain equal
    rights
  • Assisted in many Civil Rights events such as the
    Montgomery Bus boycott and Brown vs. the Board of
    education

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • Founders were Martin Luther King and Bayard
    Rustin
  • Believed non-violent civil disobedience could
    gain the civil rights for African Americans
  • Involved in events such as Albany Movement, the
    Birmingham, Alabama Campaign and the March on
    Washington in the Summer of 1963.

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Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC)
  • Began with meetings held by Ella Baker in April
    1960
  • SNCC played a leading role in the Freedom Rides,
    the 1963 March on Washington, and Mississippi
    Freedom Summer (nonviolent)
  • In the later part of the 1960s, led by fiery
    leaders such as Stokely Carmichael, SNCC focused
    on Black Power (more violent)

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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • founded in Chicago in 1942 by James L. Farmer,
    Jr., George Houser and Bernice Fisher
  • sought to apply the principles of nonviolence as
    a tactic against segregation
  • Events Freedom Rides and March on Washington

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Black Panthers
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Black Panthers
  • Founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
  • Wanted African Americans to lead their own
    communities, the government to rebuild ghettos,
    gave rise to the slogan Black is Beautiful
  • had Violent encounters with the police, but also
    did things to help the community such as set up
    day care centers and free breakfast programs

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Assignment
  • Use information the movies, your notes, and the
    textbook to
  • Create a comparison chart or Venn Diagram of
    Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
  • Make sure you include background information,
    their involvement in Civil Rights, their belief
    in segregation, and their methods of protest
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