Organizations and Leaders During the Modern Civil Rights Movement Organization!Founded!Major Goals/Events!Leaders National Association for the!1909!Dedicated to full political and civil rights for!W.E.B. DuBois Advancement of Colored!!African-Americans, end lynching, litigation,!Thurgood Marshall!! People (NAACP) !!integration, fair practices in employment and!Roy Wilkins! !!housing; Smith v. Allwright (1944), Shelly v. ! Medgar and Myrlie Evers !!Kraemer (1948), Brown v. Board of Education! Julian Bond! !!(1954), Montgomery Bus Segregation Ruling (1956)! Eleanor and Lincoln Ragsdale (AZ) National Urban League !1911!Solve economic and social problems of urban!Whitney Young !!African-Americans, assist blacks in adjustment to!Eleanor and Lincoln Ragsdale (AZ) !!Northern city life, enforcement and advocation of !!civil rights legislation Nation of Islam (NOI)!1930!Black separatism, black pride, self-defense, black!Elijah Muhammad !!economic self-sufficiency, programs and events!Malcolm X !!in African-American community, black supremacy!Muhammad Ali !!controversial for racist, anti-Semitic, anti-gay rhetoric!Louis Farrakhan Congress of Racial Equality!1942!End segregation and discrimination through direct!James Farmer (CORE) !!nonviolent action (Gandhi), freedom rides to!Bayard Rustin !!desegregate interstate buses (1947, 1961), sit-ins!Floyd McKissick !!to integrate lunch counters, voter registration,!Roy Innis !!CORE activists Schwerner, Cheney & Goodman !!murdered (1964), black power, black nationalism (1966) !!!! Southern Christian Leadership !1957!End segregation and discrimination through direct!Martin Luther King, Jr. Conference (SCLC) !!nonviolent action, church-based, Montgomery Bus!Ralph Abernathy !!Boycott, Albany, Birmingham, March on Washington,!James Bevel !!Selma March!Fred Shuttlesworth !!!Andrew Young !!!Jesse Jackson Student Nonviolent Coordinating!1960!Liberate African-Americans from all forms of racial, political!Ella Baker Committee (SNCC) !!and economic oppression, organize local communities to!Diane Nash !!challenge segregation, black nationalism, Nashville sit-ins,!James Lawson !!voter registration efforts in Mississippi, Black Power (1966)!Bob Moses !!!Fannie Lou Hamer !!!John Lewis !!!Stokely Carmichael Created for Jazz from A to Z by Marcie Hutchinson, January 2013.