Black Civil Rights Organizations of the 20th Century

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957- )
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was created on January 10-11, 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders...
November 8th, 2009

National Urban League (1910 – )
Image Ownership: Public Domain The National Urban League (NUL) was formed on October 11, 1910, to help African American migrants...
November 8th, 2009

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States
In 2009 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People celebrated its 100th anniversary. In the article below historian...
January 19th, 2009

Black Panther Party (U.S.A.)
Founded in October of 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) became the most...
January 28th, 2008