Organisations

Congress of Racial Equality or CORE, American civil rights organization that pioneered the strategy of nonviolent direct action, especially the tactics of sit-ins, jail-ins, and Freedom Rides.

Council of Federated Organizations or COFO, umbrella organization composed of various civil rights groups working independently in Mississippi.

Deacons for Defense and Justice a black organization established to protect civil rights workers against the Ku Klux Klan.

Highlander Folk School interracial adult education center in Mounteagle, Tennessee, where some of the most important figures of the Civil Rights Movement studied.

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights an important American lobbying organization for civil rights legislation in the ..

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party primarily African American political organization formed to protest racial exclusion by the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party at the Democratic ...

Montgomery Improvement Association group formed by African American leaders in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 to organize and sponsor the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Tuskegee Civic Association, African American group dedicated to civil rights, voter education, and community welfare in Alabama. Formed in 1941, the Tuskegee Civic Association grew out of a group of men who had been meeting since 1910 as The Men's Meeting and, later, The Tuskegee Men's Club. Its members worked on several fronts to improve the lives of African Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama, and its surrounding area, Macon County.

Ku Klux Klan secret terrorist organization that originated in the Southern states during the period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War and that was reactivated on a wider geographic basis in the 20th century.

Black Panther Party a militant black political organization originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966. Newton became the party's defense minister, and Seale its chairman. The BPP advocated black self-defense and restructuring American society to make it more politically, economically, and socially equal.

NAACP The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.