The NAACP began in 1909. One of its founders was WEB Dubois, a writer and sociologist who was, incidentally, the first African American to get his PhD from Harvard! As their website states:
Echoing the focus of Du Bois' Niagara Movement began in 1905, the NAACP's stated goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, the equal protection of the law, and universal adult male suffrage, respectively.
The next group to form was CORE, or the comittee of racial equality, in 1942. It was founded by a racially mixed group of students in Chicago, and its tenets were based on the nonviolent teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
The SCLC was formed in part as a response to the Montgomery bus boycott. The group formed in 1957 to take the Civil Rights movement in a new direction. In fact, this group can be seen as the "start" of the civil rights movement. It's founding board is as follows:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as President, Dr. Ralph David Abernathy as Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Rev. C. K. Steele of Tallahassee, Florida as Vice President, Rev. T. J. Jemison of Baton Rouge, Louisiana as Secretary, and Attorney I. M. Augustine of New Orleans, Louisiana as General Counsel.
In 1966, feeling that nonviolent protest had failed, the Black Panthers formed to stand up for rights. They were founded by Huey Percey Newton and Bobby Seale and claimed to stand for all oppressed and all minorities. They advocated revolution through what they described as a ten point plan that called for freedom from oppression, full employment, making good on failed promises of the reconstruction, decent housing, education, free health care, an end to police brutality, end to wars of aggression, freedom for political prisoners, and basic needs met for all. Essentially, they stood up for all oppressed minorities.
For more information on these groups, check out the links below!
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