HIST 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Newton N. Minow
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Martin luther king jr. formed southern christian leadership conference (sclc) Organized ministers and churches in the south to get behind civil rights struggle. College students in greensboro, nc start sit-in movement, refused service at segregated woolworth"s lunch counter. Sit-in tactics become popular in public areas throughout the south. Student nonviolent coordinating committee (sncc) kept movement organized. Boycotts, sit-ins, court rulings, gov responses to pressure = turning point in civil rights movement. Progress slow impatient african americans violent confrontations. Congress dropped bans on chinese and asian immigrants and eliminated race as a barrier to naturalization. Quota system remained puerto ricans could enter us as american citizens. Mexicans faced choice of working under contract in braceros program, entering as regulated legal immigrant, or crossing border as illegals . Us officials responding to complaints from native-born workers and from mexico launched operation wetback forced estimated 3. 8 million people to return to. Mexican immigrants who remained faced discrimination and exploitation by farmers.
