During the 1960s, the Civil Right Movement was led mostly by Martin Luther King Jr. However, the Civil Right Movement started in 1954 with the case of Brown v. Board, which declare the segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Later Martin Luther King Jr. ended segregation on buses by leading a boycott in Montgomery Alabama in 1957. Martin Luther King Jr. alongside with the four major non-violent activist groups, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), who influenced the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. For a certain amount of time each group work on their
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CORE was essential for the Civil Rights Movement since they protect and secure access to education, jobs and housing or African Americans.
SNCC joined CORE in 1961 in a series of freedom rides. Towards mids 1960s SNCC and CORE became more aggressive, frustrated by the slowly gains of the Civil right Movement. CORE interact with other civil activist groups, by helding sit-ins and freedom rites with SCLC and SNCC. After the incident of February 1, CORE would held protest segregation at bus terminals. Until the end of the 1960s, when CORE adopted a Black Nationalist Agenda, which advocated self determination and racial separation. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) strategy to nonviolent protest inspired other groups to confront segregation with “sit-in” at lunch counters, which later expanded to more than 60 lunch counters. Two of NAACP former officers, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeill, were part of the four black students who sat at lunch counter in Greensboro. Through NAACP involvement, the sit-in movement spread all over the south. However, the NAACP faced many restrictions that prevented them from working in the South. But this restrictions were the ones who gave path to Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to
CORE was essential for the Civil Rights Movement since they protect and secure access to education, jobs and housing or African Americans.
SNCC joined CORE in 1961 in a series of freedom rides. Towards mids 1960s SNCC and CORE became more aggressive, frustrated by the slowly gains of the Civil right Movement. CORE interact with other civil activist groups, by helding sit-ins and freedom rites with SCLC and SNCC. After the incident of February 1, CORE would held protest segregation at bus terminals. Until the end of the 1960s, when CORE adopted a Black Nationalist Agenda, which advocated self determination and racial separation. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) strategy to nonviolent protest inspired other groups to confront segregation with “sit-in” at lunch counters, which later expanded to more than 60 lunch counters. Two of NAACP former officers, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeill, were part of the four black students who sat at lunch counter in Greensboro. Through NAACP involvement, the sit-in movement spread all over the south. However, the NAACP faced many restrictions that prevented them from working in the South. But this restrictions were the ones who gave path to Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to