In the early 1960s new black groups began to form, there was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led by Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and James Meredith. During one of their marches to protest the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Meredith was killed. Also during this march Carmichael invented the slogan "black power" which he would later use to empower the group he joined in 1967, the Black Panther Party. Martin Luther King, Jr was a member of numerous black protest groups. rights. King was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), of which he was a leading member, and his alliance with the NAACP dates back to the early 1950s. “In 1957 the NAACP awarded Martin Luther King the Spingarn Medal, its most prestigious honor” (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 2012) for his efforts to achieve equal rights for all. “Dr. King's involvement with the NAACP..., through his leadership in the various boycotts, marches and demonstrations of the 1960s, and up until his assassination in 1968." (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 2012) King was also part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference group. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a group that was committed to improving or influencing the civil rights movement. “It took its ideals from Christianity; by Gandhi.” (Elsevier Publishing Company) King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and directed the organization for eleven years until his assassination While President King traveled millions of miles and spoke in more than twenty-five hours… ... in the middle of the newspaper... Online archive: http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black -pantere/Barbiere, G. (nd). DAYS OF PROTEST. Extract from Online NewsHour : http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/vietnam/protests.htmlElsevier Publishing Company. (n.d.). Martin Luther King - Biography. Retrieved from Nobelprise.org: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.htmlEvans, C. (2011). MUHAMMAD ALI. Retrieved from Nova Online: http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/events/ali98.htmNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (2012). Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Retrieved from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: http://www.naacp.org/pages/kingNew York: Random House. (n.d.). Annotated bibliography. Excerpt from Muhammad Ali: A Fighter's Resistance to War: http://www.americanhits.org/websites/Ali/bibframes.htm