1. A Day for the Learning of Acronyms and some other groups
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A Day for the Learning of Acronyms
and some other groups

2. KKK Ku Klux Klan – White Supremacy Divided into three groups 1865-1877
Fought against Reconstruction
Fought for prohibition
Fought against Catholics and Jews
1946-present
Fought against the Civil Rights Movement

7. UNIA Universal Negro Improvement Association Founded by Marcus Garvey
Strongest in the 1920s
Promoted Colonization

8. NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Founded in 1909
“to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.”

9. SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Founded April 1960
A key component of the Civil Rights Movement
“A final SNCC legacy is the destruction of the psychological shackles which had kept black southerners in physical and mental peonage; SNCC helped break those chains forever. It demonstrated that ordinary women and men, young and old, could perform extraordinary tasks.” – Julian Bond

13. SCLC Southern Christian Leadership conference January 10, 1957
Martin Luther King, Jr. was first president

14. Nation of Islam Founded in July 1930 Black Supremacy
“Goals to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States.”

15. Black Panther Party Lasted from 1966 to 1982
Revolutionary leftist organization founded by Huey Newton
Organized to provide militant protection for African Americans, especially against white law enforcement
Stokley Carmichael later joined after disillusionment with integration

17. Think about groups like the NAACP and the UNIA as well as the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam
For the groups that still exist today (NAACP and Nation of Islam), what gives them staying power while the other groups (UNIA and Black Panthers) become mere historical footnotes?