Leaders and Strategies

Organization, strong commitment

Ordinary citizens battling racial injustice No central organization Many groups Own priorities Own strategies Own ways of operating

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

Took on economic issues Founded in 1911 Helped those moving out of the South Education and skills

Founded in 1921 Congress of Racial Equality Interracial WWII James Farmer Director of CORE Became a national organization

Increased violence toward African Americans New leaders in civil rights preached a philosophy of nonviolence

Formed in 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference Advocated nonviolent protest Shifting to the South

Leader and symbol for civil rights Influenced by Gandhi Leader in India Preached nonviolence Henry David Thoreau Civil disobedience MLK as a teacher

Formed in 1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Bigger voice for young African Americans

Leader of the SNCC More soft-spoken SNCC became a powerful force