Name three core civil rights organizations and briefly describe their primary focus.

• A. NAACP (legal challenges); SCLC (nonviolent mass action); SNCC (student-led grassroots organizing)
• B. NAACP (economic empowerment); SCLC (political lobbying); SNCC (militarized defense)
• C. NAACP (student activism); SCLC (legal challenges); SNCC (economic boycotts)
• D. NAACP (youth mentoring); SCLC (courts); SNCC (religious outreach)

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is recognizing that three major civil rights groups focused on different ways to push for change: law and policy, organized nonviolent action, and grassroots student-led organizing. The NAACP is known for using legal challenges to overturn segregation and to pursue economic justice through legal and institutional channels. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference built broad-based, nonviolent mass actions and strategic political advocacy to press for civil rights legislation and reforms. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee emphasized student leadership, local organizing, and direct-action campaigns to empower communities and drive voter participation.

This combination—NAACP focusing on economic empowerment through legal means, SCLC on organized political advocacy, and SNCC on grassroots, student-led action—best matches the described roles in the given option. The other pairings mix up these groups’ typical emphases, making them less representative of how each organization actually operated.