Civil Rights

Question 1

What were the main civil rights organisations in the 1950s?

Answer 1

❖The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE),
❖The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
❖The Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL).
❖The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

Question 2

What was the NAACP?

Answer 2

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was committed to fighting for civil rights in the courts in order to bring an end to segregation.

Question 3

When was the NAACP set up?

Answer 3

The NAACP was set up in February 1909.

Question 4

Why was the NAACP created?

Answer 4

❖To end the discrimination and violence faced by African Americans.
❖To end lynchings of African Americans.

Question 5

What events was the NAACP involved in?

Answer 5

❖It was involved in challenging segregation in education in the Brown versus Topeka case in 1954.
❖It helped protect the witnesses in the Emmett Till case in 1955.
❖It was one of the organisers of the March on Washington in 1963.
❖It was involved in Freedom Summer of 1964.
❖It campaigned for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Question 6

What was CORE?

Answer 6

The Congress of Racial Equality was a non-violent organisation from the north. It used peaceful methods to spread its message and trained others to do so, for example by using boycotts and sit-ins to protest against segregation.

Question 7

When was CORE set up?

Answer 7

CORE was set up in 1942.

Question 8

What events was CORE involved in?

Answer 8

❖In 1955, it helped in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
❖In 1960, it helped to organise sit-ins.
❖In 1961, it organised the Freedom Rides.
❖It helped organise the March on Washington in 1963.
❖It organised the Freedom Summer of 1964.