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Leaders and Strategies
Chapter 21, Section 2
Organization, strong commitment
Setting the Scene
Ordinary citizens battling racial injusticeNo central organization
Many groupsOwn prioritiesOwn strategiesOwn ways of operating
Laying the Groundwork
One of the oldest civil rights organizationsInterracial
Formed in 1909W.E.B DuBois
Founding member1920s and 1930s
LynchingOnly appealed to:
Educated African AmericansMiddle and Upper ClassLiberal white Americans
NAACP
Took on economic issuesFounded in 1911Helped those moving out of the SouthEducation and skills
National Urban League
Founded in 1921Congress of Racial Equality
InterracialWWIIJames Farmer
Director of COREBecame a national organization
CORE
Increased violence toward African Americans
New leaders in civil rights preached a
philosophy of nonviolence
Nonviolence
Formed in 1957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Advocated nonviolent protest
Shifting to the South
SCLC
Leader and symbol for civil rightsInfluenced by Gandhi
Leader in IndiaPreached nonviolence
Henry David ThoreauCivil disobedience
MLK as a teacher
Dr. King Leads the Way
Formed in 1960Student Nonviolent Coordinating CommitteeBigger voice for young African Americans
SNCC
Leader of the SNCC
More soft-spoken
SNCC became a powerful force
Robert Moses