Civil Rights Activists
What is Sojourner Truth's real name?
Isabella Baumfree
What was the name of the organization Martin Luther King Jr. founded?
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
What year was John Lewis elected to the U.S. House of Representatives?
In 1986
What college did Diane Nash attend?
She attended Fisk University
Where did MLK get his nonviolent resistant tactics from? What types of nonviolent protest methods did MLK use and advocate for?
MLK got his nonviolent ideals from Mahatma Gandhi and he advocated for boycotts, sit-ins, and marches to fight against discrimination and segregation against African Americans.
What organization did Medger Evers serve as the first field secretary for?
The NAACP
What did Sojourner Truth publicly fight for?
She wanted to end slavery (she was an abolitionist), religion, and women's suffrage.
What was the name of the newspaper Ida B. Wells wrote for and co-owned?
The Memphis Free Speech
What position did Thurgood Marshall hold in the U.S. Supreme Court? Two answers!
He was appointed to the U.S. Courts of Appeals by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and he was appointed U.S. Solicitor General by President Lyndon B. Johnson and became a U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1967
What was the name of the march John Lewis helped organize in 1965?
Selma to Montgomery, this march was later known as "Bloody Sunday" because the protestors were brutally attacked by police officers.
Why didn't the NAACP use Claudette Colvin's case to spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Claudette was a teenager, who was unwed and pregnant. Her condition would have taken away from the movement; Rosa Parks was used instead.
Who was the first African American woman elected to Congress? What year did it happen?
Shirley Chisholm was elected to Congress in 1968.
Which landmark court case did Thurgood Marshall win that made "separate but equal" unconstitutional?
Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954
Ida B. Wells wrote shocking details about what between the years 1890-1900? Which organization did she begin?
She wrote "Red Record" which documented lynchings (which was the hanging of African Americans) most were not related to crimes. She founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What Civil Rights organization was Fannie Lou Hammer a part of?
She helped to organize a voter registration drive that grew into the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Which famous Civil Rights leader and organization did Diane Nash work with during the Selma Voting Rights Campaign?
She worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC
What organization did Shirley Chisholm find, and which U.S. President made her ambassador to Jamaica?
She founded the National Congress of Black Women (NCBW) and President Bill Clinton made her ambassador to Jamaica in 1993.
Where did Martin Luther King Jr. assassination happen?
At the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
What did Fannie Lou Hamer say what happened to her when she tried to register to vote?
The house were she and other registered voters fled to were sprayed with bullets.
What did Fannie Lou Hamer advocate for at the Democratic Convention in 1964?
She advocated for African Americans to get equal voting rights
Which Civil Rights activists said this quote, "good trouble, necessary trouble." This activist was also an original member of the ...?
John Lewis and he was one of the original Freedom Riders.
How did Diane Nash contribute to the Freedom Rides?
When violence stopped the first Freedom Ride in Alabama, Diane Nash led all the rides from Birmingham, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi.
What did Medger Evers do as the NAACP's first field officer?
He established new local chapters, organized voter registration drives, and helped lead protests to desegregate public primary schools, parks, and beaches in Mississippi.
Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was unconstitutional
What events led to Medger Evers' assassination?
His public investigations into the 1955 lynching of 14 year old Emmett Till and the 1960 conviction of Clyde Kennard, a black civil rights activist framed for crimes he did not commit. Soon after, Evers' was assassinated.