 NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Focused on challenging the laws that prevented African Americans from exercising their full rights as citizens Anti-lynching laws passed Brown vs. Board of Education Appealed to educated middle and upper class African Americans Wanted to achieve legal equality for all races

 National Urban League Focused on economics Assisted people moving to major American cities Find jobs, homes, and fair treatment at work

 CORE- Congress of Racial Equality Interracial Demonstrations against segregation

 SCLC- Southern Christian Leadership Conference Non-violent protest Civil Disobedience Focused primarily in the South Leader was Martin Luther King Jr.

 SNCC- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Felt other organizations were not keeping up with the demands of young African Americans Represented the younger generation

 A group of CORE members sat at segregated lunch counters and other public places and stayed until they were served or removed by force. SNCC took on this action as well

 Departed Washington D.C., both black and white and took the buses to New Orleans.  Done to test new desegregation of bus stations.  Buses were fire bombed and activists beaten and arrested.

 More than 200,000 people took part.  MLK Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech

 Banned the use of different voter registration standards for blacks and whites  Prohibited discrimination in public accommodations  Allowed the withholding of federal funds from public or private programs that practiced discrimination  Banned discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, or natural origin by employers and unions  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission- investigates charges of job discrimination

 Federal officials could register voters in places where local officials were blocking registration by African Americans  Eliminated literacy tests and other barriers

 Black Nationalism- separate identity and racial unity of the African American community  Malcolm X believed the Civil Rights Movement was a farce. ‘Why would anyone want to join white society?’

 Wanted African Americans to lead their own communities  Demanded that the federal government rebuild that nation’s ghettos to make up for years of neglect  “Black in beautiful”  Created a split in the Civil Rights Movement. Violence vs. Nonviolence

 Segregation is now illegal  African Americans can now vote  African American officials rose 88%