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African-American Civil Rights Leaders

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Edited the NAACP The Crisis, Executive secretary of the NAACP from 1955-1977, was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on WashingtonRoy Wilkins
Leader of the Mississippi Freedom Party and an advocate of voter registration, workd with SNCCFanni Lou Hamer
head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and a leader of the 1941 March on WashingtonAsa Philip Randolph
Director of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom SummerBob Moses
Graduate of Fisk, one of the first Freedom Riders, leader of the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, former member of the US House of Rep. from GeorgiaJohn Lewis
Mentor of SNCC believed in voter registration, established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's national officeElla Baker
A founder of the SCLC, and organizer of the Montgomery Bus BoycottRalph Abernathy
Embraced Islam and founded the Organization of Afro-American UnityMalcolm X
First field secretary of the NAACP in MS. Assassinated in front of his home in JacksonMedgar Evers
Founders of the Black Panthers in Oakland, CAHuey Newton, Bobby Seale
Led the desegregation of downtown businesses in NashvilleDiane Nash
First African-American to attend Ole Miss.James Meredith
Founding member of SNCC Chairman of the NAACPJulian Bond
Founded the Congress of Racial EqualityJames Farmer
Served as chair of SNCC and wrote Black Power and the Pollitics of Liberation. Emigrated to GuineaStokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Founded the Children's Defense FundMarian Wright Edelman
Helped organized the desegregation of the Little Rock school systemDaisy Bates
Was the point person of the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat.Rosa Parks
Head of the SCLC, "I Have a Dream Speech" considered the leader of the civil rights movement.Martin Luther King Jr.
Served as Exectuve Director of the National Urban LeagueWhitney Young Jr.
Deputy Director of the 1963 March on Washington, behind the scenes organizer for civil rights, also worked on anti-war protests, and for gay rightsBayard Rustin
Inaugerated the 1963 effort to desegregate public facilities in BirminghamFred Shuttlesworth
African-American intellectual believed in emphasizing the Talented TenthW.E.B. Du Bois
Lead attorney for the NAACP in Brown vs Board of Education and first African-American on the Supreme CourtThurgood Marshall
What does SNCC stand for?Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
What does SCLC stand for?Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What does CORE stand for?Congress on Racial Equality
Separate but equal was establsihed as a legal precedent by what 1896 case.Plessy vs Ferguson
What does NAACP stand forNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What Supreme Court Justice replaced Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme CourtClarence Thomas


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