The Civil Rights Movement: Leading Organisations

NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People: Played a leading role in taking legal actions to end segregation in education.

CORE Congress of Racial Equality: Organised sit-ins and interracial non-violence workshops.

SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Campaigned to halt discriminatory practices of voter registrars. Led by James Foreman

SNCC Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee: Organised voter registration drives and launched black owned institutions, "freedom schools".

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A Day In Greenwood, Mississippi
March 27, 1963

Last night two shotgun blasts were fired into the home of Mr Dewey Green, Sr. in Greenwood, Mississippi. Mr Green's sons have both been active in the struggle for civil rights in the South. One applied for admission at the University of Mississippi; the other is active in the Mississippi veter registration project...

...This morning, in what is an obvious answer to white Mississippi's violence, 120 Negro prospective voter applicants gathered in front of Weslian Methodist Church in Greenwood to march on the courthouse and attempt to register to vote.

...Today 100 persons marched in the courthouse in Greenwood. The police set dogs on the people and ten to twelve were arrested, including James Foreman. The police then entered the church head-quarters of the group and arrested more persons. The police are standing in front of the courthouse with guns. A mob of whites is forming.

(Extracts from a press release from the Greenwood SNCC office.)

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