Civil Rights
...hings were their main goals. There job was not done. They are still active today helping people trying to reach a goal of total equal rights and the dissolution of racism. With black people migrating northward they discovered they had not escaped racism (The National Urban League, 2005). The Urban League was formed September 29, 1910 to help the black people adapt and to help them deal the discrimination they would face. The Urban League would help educate and try to help them get fair treatment when looking for jobs. The EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) was formed when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. This also would help the black people with job discrimination In the mid 1900’s blacks were growing stronger fighting against racism and the inequality they faced daily. Protesting started to flourish. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Deacons for Defense and Justice, SCLC (lead by Martin Luther King, Jr.) and many others help arrange non-violent organized protests. Although trying to keep the protest nonviolent some would become violent. Stokely Carmichael (chairman of the SNCC) wanted to implement security and asked for the Deacons for Defense and Justice to provide security at some of the protests. The June 1966 March Against Fear made it hard for CORE and SNCC to keep non-violent, by this time both had endorsed armed self-defense as a legitimate and viable tactic in the struggle to achieve civil and human rights (Hampton & Fayer, 1990; Sellers, 1990, Umoja, 1999). SCLC would give into the armed defense tactic for this march but insisted that nonviolent protest were the way to go. By the mid-1960’s many CORE and SNCC activist in the deep southern and bordering states were armed, the nonviolent protesting was rejected as many of the protestors were being hurt or even killed (Umoja, 1999). This was a definite shift in the way protests were handles. The leader of the SCLC, Martin Luther King Jr. is perhaps one of the most recognized black activists of all time. He was a powerful speaker and influenced many powerful men to see the hardships and the unfair treatment of the black person. Martin Luther King Jr. worked more on a federal level than on a community level. He would have meetings with the president expressing his thoughts on reforming federal law so that the law on the state level could not keep oppressing the black person. Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver were both high members of the Black Muslims. Both had powerful influences on the movement. When Malcolm X disobeyed the leader of the Black Muslims he was suspended. He then organized in 1964, The Organization of...