4.2 Major Civil Rights Organizations

• Civil rights organizations challenge discrimination and promote social justice through various means such as lobbying, legal action, education, and protests
• The SCLC was led by Martin Luther King Jr
• Which civil rights organization was led by Martin Luther King Jr.?

  SCLC
• Medgar Evers led the NAACP through legal challenges.

  True
• Match the civil rights leader with their organization and leadership style:

  Martin Luther King Jr. ↔️ SCLC, Nonviolent resistance

  Medgar Evers ↔️ NAACP, Legal challenges

  James Farmer ↔️ CORE, Nonviolent civil disobedience

  Stokely Carmichael ↔️ SNCC, Black power
• The SCLC was led by Martin Luther King Jr. and focused on nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience
• Match the organization with its primary strategy:

  NAACP ↔️ Legal challenges

  SCLC ↔️ Nonviolent direct action

  CORE ↔️ Nonviolent civil disobedience

  SNCC ↔️ Voter registration drives
• What tactics did the SCLC use to challenge segregation?

  Protests, marches, boycotts
• Which organization was Stokely Carmichael associated with?

  SNCC
• Match the leader with their organization:

  Martin Luther King Jr. ↔️ SCLC

  Medgar Evers ↔️ NAACP

  James Farmer ↔️ CORE

  Stokely Carmichael ↔️ SNCC
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized by the SCLC.


  True
• What strategy did CORE use during the Freedom Rides?

  Nonviolent civil disobedience
• What are civil rights organizations formed to advocate for?

  Equality and rights
• Match the civil rights organization with its primary focus:

  SCLC ↔️ Nonviolent direct action

  CORE ↔️ Civil disobedience tactics

  SNCC ↔️ Voter registration drives
• Match the civil rights organization with its primary strategy:

  NAACP ↔️ Legal challenges

  SCLC ↔️ Nonviolent direct action

  CORE ↔️ Civil disobedience

  SNCC ↔️ Voter registration
• What was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s key contributions as leader of the SCLC?

  Led Montgomery Bus Boycott
• What is the primary focus of the NAACP?

  Legal challenges to segregation
• Which organization played a key role in the Freedom Summer campaign?

  SNCC
• Who led the SCLC and emphasized nonviolent resistance?

  Martin Luther King Jr.
• Who filed landmark lawsuits that helped dismantle the Jim Crow system?

  Medgar Evers
• What range of strategies and tactics did civil rights organizations use to achieve equality?

  Legal challenges to direct action
• The NAACP is the oldest and largest civil rights organization.

  True
• What type of civil disobedience did CORE pioneer?

  Sit-ins and freedom rides
• Civil rights organizations primarily advocate for African Americans.


  True
• Arrange the organizational strategies and tactics of major civil rights organizations:

  1️⃣ Legal challenges by NAACP

  2️⃣ Nonviolent protests by SCLC

  3️⃣ Civil disobedience by CORE

  4️⃣ Voter registration by SNCC
• James Farmer led CORE with nonviolent civil disobedience
• What was the NAACP's primary focus?

  Legal challenges to segregation
• CORE pioneered the use of nonviolent civil disobedience tactics like sit-ins and freedom rides.


  True
• CORE organized sit-ins and freedom rides to desegregate public facilities
• The NAACP primarily used legal strategies, while the SCLC, CORE, and SNCC employed direct action tactics.


  True
• Stokely Carmichael promoted the "black power" philosophy within the SNCC