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9th Grade U.S. History
Chapter 19; Section 1 NOTES
Name____________________________
Date________________ Hour_____
The Civil Rights Movement 1954 - 1968
Leaders and Strategies
Key Terms
interracial –
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) –
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) –
Nonviolent protest –
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) –
Main Idea
The _________ ___________movement of the 1960s consisted of many separate groups, whose leaders and
methods differed while sharing the same _______ of securing ________ _________ ____ _____ Americans.
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 ___________
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Q: What was the goal of the NAACP?
A: ______________________________________________________________________________________
Q: What approach did the NAACP take toward ending discrimination?
A: _____________________________________________________________________________________
 _______ ______________
• first African American to receive a _________ __________ from Harvard University
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 National ____________ League
• Focused on ____________ issues of African Americans
 __________
• Congress of Racial Equality
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 Southern Christian Leadership Council (______)
• Focused on civil rights in the ________
 Martin Luther King, Jr.
• __________ ____________
− Civil rights leader born in Atlanta, GA 1929
• __________________ in Tennessee in 1968
− _______ _______ _____ convicted; sentenced to 99 years; died in prison 1998
Q: How did King move to the forefront of the civil rights movement?
A: ____________________________________________________________________________________
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Q: Read the two viewpoints on p. 566. How do these two speeches, made about one month apart, reflect the
division in the country?
A: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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 SNCC Breaks Away
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (“______”)
• gave ________ ____________ a chance to make decisions about priorities and tactics
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 _________ _________
 most influential leader of SNCC
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 ______ __________
 her family feared for their safety due to her participating in NAACP, CORE and SNCC
Q: Why was the SNCC founded?
A: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Civil Rights Organization
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Goals/Characteristics
Interracial organization with W.E.B. __________ as a founding
member; worked primarily for full legal __________ and for the removal
of _________ __________; appealed to upper middle class Americans.
Helped African Americans find _______ and _____ in cities;
encouraged businesses and unions to _______ African Americans skills.
____________ organization; main tactic was _____________
confrontation; headed by James __________.
Organization of ____________ founded by Martin Luther ______, Jr.;
introduced concept of _____________ _________; shifted focus of
movement to _______.
Q: In what important ways did SNCC and its goals differ from the SCLC?
A: ____________________________________________________________________________________
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Q: How might you explain the long gap in time between the founding of the NAACP and the start of CORE and
SCLC?
A: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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