1. 1954-1968

2.  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

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

4.  CORE- Congress of Racial Equality Interracial Demonstrations against segregation

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

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

7.  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

8.  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.

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

11.  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

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

13.  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?’

14.  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

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