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African American Politics Though the activities of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were unified in their
common idea of resistance to oppression, these groups fought
their battles on multiple fronts. The NAACP filed lawsuits and
aggressively lobbied Congress and state legislatures, while
Martin Luther King Jr. and SCLC challenged the racial status quo
through nonviolent mass action, and the SNCC focused on
community empowerment activities. In Agitations, Kevin Anderson
studies these various activities in order to trace the
ideological foundations of these groups and to understand how
diversity among African Americans created multiple political
strategies. Agitations goes beyond the traditionally
acknowledged divide between integrationis