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Major Civil Rights Organizations: Multiple Choice
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- 01Which organization's Legal Defense and Educational Fund, led by Thurgood Marshall, spearheaded the legal strategy that dismantled segregation in the courts?
- 02Which organization, founded in Chicago in 1942, was famous for pioneering nonviolent direct action techniques like the Freedom Rides?
- 03Which organization was founded by James Farmer, George Houser, and Bernice Fisher, and was initially dedicated to pacifism and racial equality in the North?
- 04Founded in 1910, which non-partisan organization focused on the economic empowerment of African Americans, particularly those migrating to northern cities?
- 05Which activist group, emerging from the student-led lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, played a key role in Freedom Summer and the March on Washington?
- 06Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as the first president of which organization, formed in 1957 after the Montgomery bus boycott?
- 07Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded which political organization in Oakland, California, in 1966 to challenge police brutality?
- 08A. Philip Randolph, a key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was the founder and leader of which influential labor union?
- 09Which organization, founded in 1909 by figures like W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells, won the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education?
- 10The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) was an umbrella group that coordinated the 1964 Freedom Summer voter registration drive. It was composed of the 'Big Four' civil rights groups: SNCC, CORE, SCLC, and which other?