Introduction:
The thesis of this paper is going to revolve around the importance of
the individual sections within the Black Civil Rights movement. This
paper will make an attempt to shed light on their interconnectedness
or, on the other hand, the different perspectives, which sew a great
deal of mistrust and animosity into, what might have been considered
by the majority of people as a coherent movement with set political
agenda and well-thought out objectives. By taking a closer look at the
most important Black performers that were shaping the future American
society this paper will try to portray not only the major cleavages
within the respective groups but also the reason why the movement
shifted from non-violent sit-ins to more assertive and aggressive ways
of advocating their claims. The studied organizations existing at the
beginning of the 1960's are the following: Southern Christian
Leadership (SCLC) and Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC).
History and milestones
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There is a common ground for all three of them, in a sense that they
were founded out of a need to materialize the gains Black movement got
in the 1950's through the very important Supreme Court's rulings. One
of them concerned the school segregation case, which was struck down
by the Topeka ruling in 1954. The court's decision officially did away
with the "Separate but Equal" doctrine in public education. In 1956
the doctrine was undermined by another key decision delivered by the
Supreme Court in the wake of the Montgomery bus boycott, which
followed the arrest of a prominent NAACP member Rosa Parks. It was
herself who unleashed the boycott by refusing to yield her place to a
white person on the bus on December 1, 1955. Although the gains of the
Montgomery Bus Boycott were small compared with the gains...