In a 400-word essay please include:
- An introduction
- Select one of the following interest groups that lead the Civil Rights Movement.
- The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Summarize the 1942-1968 Civil Rights movement.
- Summarize the chosen group’s participation within the Civil Rights movement.
- How did your group affect public policy change?
- Identify two strategies used by the group.
- Why were these strategies successful or unsuccessful?
- Support your conclusions with information from the text and at least two, additional academic sources.
- A conclusion.
- Correct grammar and syntax.
- APA format.
- *If you want to address another social movement and their associated interest groups, please contact your professor.
- Identify two strategies used by the group.
References
Jasper, J. M. (2009). Social Movements. In D. Carr (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the life course and human development (Vol. 2, pp. 424-429). Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA. Retrieved from http://link.galegroup.com.libauth.purdueglobal.edu/apps/doc/CX3273000236/GVRL?u=chic13451&sid=GVRL&xid=b93bd5f6
The US Civil Rights Movement (1942-1968). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/us-civil-rights-movement-1942-1968/
Williams, J. (1987). Eyes on the prize: America’s civil rights years, 1954-1965. New York: Penguin Publishing Group.
