Strategies and Organizations of the CRM

Strategies and Organizations of

the CRMEssential Question: What are the different protesting

strategies of the CRM?

NAACPO National Association

for the Advancement of Colored People

O Formed in 1909

O Use court system to fight racism

O Brown v. BOE

COREO Congress of Racial

Equality

O Founded in 1942

O Nonviolent protesting

O Organized the Freedom Rides

O Helped set up March on Washington

SCLCO Southern Christian Leadership Conference

O Formed in 1957

O Nonviolent Protests

O Organized Montgomery Bus Boycott, Birmingham Protest, March on Washington

SNCCO Student Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee

O Formed in 1960

O Nonviolent protest– Black Power in later 60s

O Helped organize the March on Washington, Freedom Summer

VEPO Voter Education

Project

O Set up by SNCC, NAACP, SCLC, CORE

O Aimed at voter registration and not protesting

MFDPO Mississippi

Freedom Democratic Party

O Created in 1964

O Created to compete with all white Democratic Party

O Politically Driven

Several SNCC leaders urged African Americans to use their black power to gain equality.

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.

The Black Panthers

Black MuslimsO Nation of Islam

was biggest organization

O Founded in 1930

O Promoted Black Nationalism, self-reliance, self-dependence

Martin Luther King Jr.O Leader of SCLC

O “I Have a Dream”

O Led protests in Birmingham and Selma

O NonviolentO Assassinated on April

4, 1968

Malcolm XO One of the leaders

of Nation of Islam

O Initially promoted separation of whites and blacks as well as violence at times

O Left Nation of Islam and changed views

O Assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965

Rosa Parks

O Part of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

O Mother of Civil Rights Movement

O Died in 2005

Thurgood MarshallO Led NAACP in the

Brown v. BOE case

O Became first African American to serve on the Supreme Court

O Died in 1993

Stokely CarmichaelO Leader of SNCC

O Promoter of Black Power

O Participated in Freedom Rides and other city protests

O Died in 1998

Fannie Lou HamerO Part of SNCC and

later Head of MFDP

O Gave speech at the National Democratic Convention

O Died in 1977

Huey Newton & Bobby Seale

O Co-Founders of Black Panthers

O Inspired by Malcolm X

O Advocated violence if needed

O Newton was killed in 1989, Seale is still alive

Black PowerO Black self-

determination

O Some advocated force, others advocated black nationalism and organization

O Wanted African Americans to take control of their futures

Strategies of the CRM

ONonviolence (sit-ins, marches, boycotts)

OLegal Action (court cases)OBlack Power (use violence, fight

back)OPolitical

MLK Jr. & Malcolm XO Work with a partner

O One person reads and answers the MLK Jr. sheet, the other Malcolm X

O Afterwards, you both fill out the Venn Diagram together