Movements and Debates

To promote Black nationalism and separatism

To achieve racial equality and end discrimination

To advocate for armed self-defense

To establish separate Black communities

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Alliance for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Advancement of Civil Progress

National Association for the Advancement of Cultural Pride

SCLC

CORE

NAACP

SNCC

The NAACP focused on grassroots activism, while SNCC used legal strategies.

The NAACP used nonviolent protest, while SNCC advocated for self-defense.

The NAACP focused on legal strategies and litigation, while SNCC organized grassroots activism and voter registration.

The NAACP and SNCC had identical approaches to civil rights.

Using violence to resist unjust laws

Refusing to comply with laws as a form of protest

Lobbying legislators to change discriminatory laws

Filing lawsuits to challenge the constitutionality of laws

Armed resistance

Sit-ins

Property destruction

Rioting

It had no significant impact on public opinion.

It led to increased support for segregation.

The televised violence against child protesters shocked the nation and increased support for the Civil Rights Movement.

It decreased youth involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.

To protest the Vietnam War

To advocate for women's suffrage

To highlight economic inequality and racial injustice

To celebrate the end of segregation

Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael

Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin

Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer

Medgar Evers and Thurgood Marshall

To promote segregation and voter suppression

To address racial violence and voter suppression in Mississippi

To discourage civic engagement and Black history education

To support the Ku Klux Klan