Who am I? (Part I)
I started a school for African American children in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
I fought for migrant workers to receive better pay and more reasonable working conditions.
Who was Cesar Chavez?
Unfair treatment of a person, or group of people, because of their skin color, race, or religion
The community planned to stage a ______ of the store that refused to recycle.
boycott
For what causes did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fight for?
Civil Rights
This person refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, helping to start the civil rights movement in the South.
Who was Rosa Parks?
I was a member of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet.
an action in which a group of people join together and refuse to do business with a company or organization as a way of expressing strong disapproval
What is a boycott?
Eleanor Roosevelt devoted the last part of her life to improving _________ for everyone.
human rights
Who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I am the most famous member of the civil rights movement and believed in bringing about change through nonviolence.
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
I was the first African American to play baseball in the major leagues.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
an attempt to correct an unfair situation in a peaceful way without using physical violence
nonviolence
Cesar Chavez was a __________ who traveled from one one area to another, in search of work such as harvesting crops.
What is a migrant worker?
What causes did Susan B. Anthony fight for in her lifetime? (Name 2)
Abolish slavery and get women the right to vote
I was called "the mother of the civil rights movement."
Who was Rosa Parks?
I wanted women to have the right to vote.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
rights guaranteed by a country’s government to all its citizens
Young African American students began to hold ________ at lunch counters that would not serve them.
For what causes did Mary McLeod Bethune fight for?
Civil Rights and Human Rights
I was alive when Abraham Lincoln was president and worked to end slavery and help women get the right to vote.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
This First Lady was her husband’s “eyes and ears” because he had polio.
rights that are believed to belong to everyone, such as food, a place to live, and the right to an education and a job
What are human rights?
Eleanor Roosevelt became the ________ of the United States in 1933 when her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, became president.
First Lady
How did Jackie Robinson help change segregation laws?