Self Defense Proposal For Civil Rights (NAACP)

As you can see, these four nonviolent civil rights organizations have paved the way for a lot of the civil rights that our society has today. In many ways, these groups had very similar traits and goals, like to be able to end segregation and improve the civil rights of African Americans. They also shared practices of nonviolence to get there through strenuous sit-ins, marches, and the freedom rides. These groups acted very similarly throughout their fight, but they also had their differences. NAACP was a group who worked behind the scenes through the judicial battle while CORE was credited for leading the charge of the Freedom Rides. SCLC and SNCC were considered pretty similar by most standards, but even they had their differences with age

The 10 points included that the county must hire without discrimination, non whites must be granted the same rights as whites, non-whites would receive the same welfare that whites would, construct a swimming pool in the black part of town, remove all segregation signs, instruct the Superintendent that all schools must be desegregated by 1962, provide transportation for all school children, allow Dr. Albert E. Perry to practice medicine in the county, employ African Americans in skipped position in city government, and to act immediately on all of these proposals (Williams, R 1968). This plan did not work out in Monroe County, but Williams had to keep pushing forward. Not to long after this, craziness ensued in Monroe when a white racist couple went parading through the black part of town announcing “Open Season on Coons” (Williams, R 1968). The local African Americans eventually stopped the couple because they were no longer taking these kinds of threats, and soon after they were brought to Williams house to pay for their consequences, but Williams did nothing (Williams, R 1968). In the midst of all of this hundreds of people were on their way to where Williams lived, police cars and units circled the city, and plans were flying overhead to attempt and break up the large mass of African Americans in the county of Monroe

Yes, they had very different methods than the nonviolent groups had, but just as effective and important. These groups did no more waiting around, and were willing to fight back for what they believed in. They could no longer allow themselves to be beaten by police for no reason, so instead they fought back, which showed the country that an eye for an eye would now be acceptable. In some areas they weren’t successful but in most they were. Great self defense leaders like Robert Williams, Malcolm X, Huey Percy Newton, and Bobby Seale, saw that they were running out of options and the only way the United States would notice them was if they fought back, and that is why this became one of the most successful methods during the civil rights