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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 Washington | Roy Wilkins |
Leader of the Mississippi Freedom Party and an advocate of voter registration, workd with SNCC | Fanni Lou Hamer |
head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and a leader of the 1941 March on Washington | Asa Philip Randolph |
Director of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer | Bob 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 Georgia | John Lewis |
Mentor of SNCC believed in voter registration, established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's national office | Ella Baker |
A founder of the SCLC, and organizer of the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Ralph Abernathy |
Embraced Islam and founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity | Malcolm X |
First field secretary of the NAACP in MS. Assassinated in front of his home in Jackson | Medgar Evers |
Founders of the Black Panthers in Oakland, CA | Huey Newton, Bobby Seale |
Led the desegregation of downtown businesses in Nashville | Diane Nash |
First African-American to attend Ole Miss. | James Meredith |
Founding member of SNCC Chairman of the NAACP | Julian Bond |
Founded the Congress of Racial Equality | James Farmer |
Served as chair of SNCC and wrote Black Power and the Pollitics of Liberation. Emigrated to Guinea | Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) |
Founded the Children's Defense Fund | Marian Wright Edelman |
Helped organized the desegregation of the Little Rock school system | Daisy 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 League | Whitney 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 rights | Bayard Rustin |
Inaugerated the 1963 effort to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham | Fred Shuttlesworth |
African-American intellectual believed in emphasizing the Talented Tenth | W.E.B. Du Bois |
Lead attorney for the NAACP in Brown vs Board of Education and first African-American on the Supreme Court | Thurgood 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 for | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
What Supreme Court Justice replaced Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court | Clarence Thomas |