University of Southern California The Black Panthers SCLC and NAACP Paper

OPTION 1: African American activism since the Second World War has often been expressed through social movement organizations and groups which have taken a variety of approaches to advance the causes of equality, equity, opportunity, and justice for black Americans. Choose three of the following groups, and compare and contrast their approaches.

1. a)  The Black Panthers
2. b)  SNCC
3. c)  SCLC
4. d)  CORE
5. e)  Black Lives Matter
6. f)  NAACP

OPTION 2: What key roles have black women played in African-American civil rights activism?  What has given their role in the movement special urgency and importance, in contrast with the roles played by black men?

OPTION 3: Analyze the contributions of three African-American leaders — other than Martin Luther King, Jr., or Malcolm X — who died before 2016.  What approaches would those leaders have advocated in confronting the rise in the visibility and assertion of white supremacists in recent years?