Abbreviations

NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Coloured People) - 1909 SNCC (Student Non-violent Council Committee) - 1960 SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) - 1957: Atlanta, Georgia CORE (Committee On Racial Equality) - 1942: Chicago, Illinois
 * Founded by: William du Bois, Ida B. Wells.
 * Purpose: To ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all people and to eliminate hatred and racial discrimination.
 * Founded by: Ella Baker.
 * Purpose: Destruction of psychological shackles which had kept black southerners in physical and mental peonage.
 * Founded by: Joseph Lowery, Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy
 * Purpose: To enforce civil rights among people of all races.
 * Founded by: Of its original 50 members 1/3 were black and 2/3 were white.
 * Purpose: To bring equality to all people, regardless of their ethnic background, race, religion, sex, age.