congress of racial equality: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
nongovernmental organization: an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
teddy boys: a British youth subculture that first appeared in the 1950s; mainly from unskilled backgrounds, they adopted a pseudo-Edwardian dress code and rock'n'roll music; proletarian and xenophobic, they were involved in race riots in the United Kingdom