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Although fighting for equality of rights since Reconstruction's final days, America saw the greatest surges of progress during the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s, thanks to the efforts of organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Despite the successes of these organizations, the tactics of the SCLC and the SNCC differed significantly from those of the NAACP. While the NAACP's victories in court cases would have a longer-lasting impact on the improvement of civil rights, the more direct tactics of non-violent confrontation employed by the SCLC and the SNCC were able to

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