Civil Rights Organizations.

Use the Google Slide show of the same name to complete the chart
below. Make sure the information goes in the appropriate row with the image!
Forms of
Leaders Protest
Organization/ (what people are (how are they Major Events
Abbreviation making things trying to
happen?) accomplish
change?)
NAACP Thurgood Sued local, Leads to fight to
Marshall state and end segregation via
federal laws
institution in
court

SCLC Martin Luther Non-violent Protest marches

King protest turn violent, and
dogs attack the
people, and they
use high pressure
water jets

SNCC Young African Sit In’s They were beaten,

Americans and had foods and
liquids thrown on
them. Following
that they were
arrested.

CORE Blacks and Riding buses They bombed the

Whites from bus in Birmingham
Washington, Alabama and they
to New were brutally
Orleans beaten
 Civil Rights Organizations
1. What similarities do all of these organizations share?
They were people fighting for their rights, and were all brutally beaten, and faced violent acts, while all
doing it peacefully.

2. Which organization would attract the youngest protesters?

SNCC

3. Which organization grew out of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

CORE

4. Which organization tried to use the laws and constitution of the United States to support its
efforts in ending segregation?

NAACP

5. What would be the problem with an organization advocating violence? Why would it be
justified?
Because then the African Americans would look terrible for beating up authority figures. I would be
justified because someone else because they were beaten up for doing something peacefully.