Name: _____KEY_________
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT—ALPHABET SOUP
Civil Rights
Movement
COFO
CORE
FEPC
What it Stands for:
What it was?
Council of Federated
Organizations
Congress of Racial Equality
A organization that was formed by the SNCC and SCLC to coordinate
voter registration drives
Formed by James Farmer in 1942 to confront urban segregation in the
North;
Was created by Roosevelt during WWII to enforce his executive order
forbidding racial discrimination in defense plants and government
offices
Organization formed to try a get a voice for African Americans in the
political arena;
Organization formed to organize the Montgomery Bus boycott; they
selected Martin Luther King, Jr. as their leader
Formed in 1909 by a number of African Americans (including W.E.B.
Du Bois) with prominent white reformers in New York; the
organization aimed “to achieve, through peaceful and lawful means,
equal citizenship rights for all American citizens” by eliminating
segregation and discrimination in housing, employment, voting,
schools, the courts, transportation, and recreation;
Was founded in 1911 by concerned African American and white
reformers; the league sought to improve job opportunities and housing
for urban African Americans
Formed by Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers and civil rights
leaders; its purpose was “to carry on nonviolent crusades against the
evils of second-class citizenship”;
The SNCC (pronounced “snick” for short) was formed with the
assistance of the SCLC at a University in North Carolina to help
students protest. SNCC later became much more militant and began
to distance itself from Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC. The
groups new leader, Stokely Carmichael,
Their purpose was “…[To] take action to bring women into full
participation in the mainstream of American society now, assuming all
the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership
with men.
This amendment was submitted to states for ratification in 1972, it
said that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by an state on account of sex”; the
amendment failed to obtain the votes needed for ratification
Created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the commission
was in charge of ensuring that employers followed the provisions of
Title VII (outlawed sexual discrimination in employment)
Organization which strives for rights for Hispanic Americans.
LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment,
political influence,
Group who demanded that lands taken from Native Americans in
violation of treaties be returned; the group has led protests advocating
Native American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police
activities and coordinated employment programs
Fair Employment Practices
Committee
Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party
Montgomery Improvement
Association
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People
MFDP
MIA
NAACP
NUL
National Urban League
SCLC
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
SNCC
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
*NOW
National Organization for
Women
*ERA
Equal Rights Amendment
*EEOC
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
**LULAC
League of United Latin
American Citizens
***AIM
American Indian Movement
Note: *—Women Rights; **—Mexican-American Rights; ***—Native American Rights
Person:
``Big Six'' Civil Rights Leaders (Planned Washington March)
Importance:
Whitney Young
Roy Wilkins
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
John Lewis
James Farmer
A. Philip Randolph
Person:
Bobby Seale
Huey Newton
Malcolm X
Medgar Evers
Ralph Abernathy
Stokely Carmichael
A member of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders; president of the National Urban League
A member of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders; president of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A member of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders; president of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC)
A member of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders; president of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
A member of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders; president of Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE) which he left in the late 60s when it became too militant; organized the Freedom
Riders and Freedom Summer
A member of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders; president of the Negro American Labor
Council (NALC) and vice president of the AFL-CIO; first came to national prominence
during WWII when he was organizing a march on Washington to protest the unequal
employment during the war—Roosevelt did not want this and eventually issued an executive
order forbidding racial discrimination in defense plants and government offices (Roosevelt
created the Fair Employment Practices Committee [FEPC] to enforce the order
Other Important Civil Rights Movement Leaders
Importance:
He and Huey P. Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.
Was co-founder and inspirational leader of the Black Panther Party, a militant AfricanAmerican activist group
Malcolm X (dropping what he called his “slave name”) was a minister and national
spokesman for the Nation of Islam; but eventually broke ties with the Nation of Islam
because: he learned that Elijah Muhammad had broken his own rules by committing adultery
and after pilgrimage to Mecca and learning that Islam really preached racial equality—he
began to push for integration
Medgar Evers was a World War II veteran and a civil rights activist from Mississippi who
was assassinated. His death was mourned nationally, and he was buried in Arlington
National Cemetery. The man believed to have been his assassin, white racist Byron De La
Beckwith, was twice acquitted when all-white juries could not reach agreement. In 1994,
Beckwith was brought to trial on new evidence based on statements he made to others and
was finally convicted on more than three decades after the murder. The 1996 film Ghosts of
Mississippi tells the story of the 1994 trial.
was an American civil rights leader; who helped King organized the bus boycott in
Montgomery; Abernathy was Martin Luther King's Number Two in the SCLC; Abernathy
assumed the presidency of the SCLC after King's death.
Took over control of the SNCC in the late 60s and pushed the group towards more militant
ways of demonstrating and showing their frustration; he popularized the slogan “Black
Power”