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Chapter 21, Section 2. Leaders and Strategies. Setting the Scene. Organization, strong commitment. Laying the Groundwork. Ordinary citizens battling racial injustice No central organization Many groups Own priorities Own strategies Own ways of operating. NAACP.
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Chapter 21, Section 2 Leaders and Strategies
Setting the Scene • Organization, strong commitment
Laying the Groundwork • Ordinary citizens battling racial injustice • No central organization • Many groups • Own priorities • Own strategies • Own ways of operating
NAACP • One of the oldest civil rights organizations • Interracial • Formed in 1909 • W.E.B DuBois • Founding member • 1920s and 1930s • Lynching • Only appealed to: • Educated African Americans • Middle and Upper Class • Liberal white Americans
National Urban League • Took on economic issues • Founded in 1911 • Helped those moving out of the South • Education and skills
CORE • Founded in 1921 • Congress of Racial Equality • Interracial • WWII • James Farmer • Director of CORE • Became a national organization
Nonviolence • Increased violence toward African Americans • New leaders in civil rights preached a philosophy of nonviolence
SCLC • Formed in 1957 • Southern Christian Leadership Conference • Advocated nonviolent protest • Shifting to the South
Dr. King Leads the Way • Leader and symbol for civil rights • Influenced by Gandhi • Leader in India • Preached nonviolence • Henry David Thoreau • Civil disobedience • MLK as a teacher
SNCC • Formed in 1960 • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • Bigger voice for young African Americans
Robert Moses • Leader of the SNCC • More soft-spoken • SNCC became a powerful force