The civil rights organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. to fight segregation using nonviolent means is?

• A. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
• B. NAACP
• C. CORE
• D. Black Panther Party

Answer: (A)

The central idea here is recognizing the organization tied to Martin Luther King Jr. and his nonviolent approach to ending segregation. In 1957, after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, King helped organize a coalition of ministers and churches in the South to coordinate nonviolent actions across the region. This group became the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC, whose purpose was to lead civil rights campaigns through peaceful means and moral leadership within the church communities of the South.

This choice stands out from the others because the NAACP was founded earlier (in the early 1900s) to win rights primarily through legal challenges in the courts; CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) began in 1942 and also used nonviolent direct action but is not the organization King founded; the Black Panther Party emerged in the 1960s with a focus on self-defense and broader Black empowerment, not the nonviolent strategy associated with King.