Civil Rights Organizations

Match the organization to the correct description -

• Associated with Cesar Chavez

• Chicano Movement

• Oldest Hispanic civil rights org.

• La Raza Unida Party

• promotes equal rights for women

• National Organization for Women (NOW) 

• El movimiento

• United Farm Workers (UFW)

• Centered around Chicano nationalism

• LULAC

Match the following

• associated with MLK Jr.

• American Indian Movement

• defend preserve individual rights

• SNCC

• student led protests

• NAACP

• Founded by WEB DuBois

• American Civil Liberties Union

• Promote inequalities from Natives

• SCLC

leading role in sit-ins, picket lines, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Rides

• CORE

• SNCC

• SCLC

• ACLU

American activist organization (founded 1966) that promotes equal rights for women.

• LULAC

• AIM

• UFW

• NOW

America's oldest and largest civil rights organization. (WEB DuBOIS)

• LULAC

• SCLC

• NAACP

• LULAC

Fought for improved social and economic conditions for farm workers. Grape boycott

• United Farm Workers

• AIM

• UFW

• NOW

advocated social and political empowerment through a chicanismo or cultural nationalism.

• UFW

• Chicano Movement

• AIM

• NOW

Created with the objective of improving awareness of the Mexican-American experience. Became prominent throughout Texas and Southern California

• LULAC

• AIM

• La Raza

• CORE

Fought for full access to the political process and equal educational opportunity for all Hispanics through legal advice and representation in the courts.

• LULAC

• American Indian Movement

• United Farm Workers

• League of United Latin American Citizens

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) African Americans

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(b) Mexican Americans

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(c) Native American

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(d) Women

• Chicano Movement

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• La Raza Unida Party

• Congress on Racial Equality

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Black Panther Party
• American Indian Movement
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 

  
  

• United Farm Workers

• League of United Latin American Citizens

• National Organization for Women