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What was the purpose of SNCC during the Civil Rights Era?

• • kept whites in political power in the South

• • coordinated students in the South to resist segregation laws

• • provided militant leadership to fight racism

• • surveyed Georgians regarding their feelings about segregation

What group was created to survey Georgians' feelings regarding desegregation in public schools?

• SCLC

• NAACP

• sibley commission

• SNCC

MLK was the first president of this organization ...

• SCLC

• SNCC

• NAACP

• KKK

Choose 2 things that SNCC was known for...

• • organizing sit-ins

• • confronting and threatening segregationists

• • being an active civil rights organization for young people

• • organizing violent protests

What was the MAIN purpose of SCLC?

• • converting Southerners to Christianity

• • urged citizens to turn in segregationists to law enforcement

• • defeating the Democratic Party in 1960

• • coordinating non-violent protests in the South