Amazing Activists!
Artists of the 40s and 50s
The Civil Rights Movement
Angels
No No Boy + WWII
100

He led SNCC, helped found the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and the Black Panther Party, and changed his name to Kwame Ture.

Who is Stokely Carmichael?

100

Name the animation company who contributed to the war effort by creating military training videos, educational shorts, and insignia that soldiers could wear on their uniforms. 

Disney

100

Name the singer, actor, dancer, comedian and activist whose public hug with Richard Nixon nearly ended his career in entertainment. 

Sammy Davis, Jr. 

100

The name of the drug that Roy hoards in his hospital room

AZT

100

Name the woman who Ichiro encounters and builds a complex relationship with in No-No Boy

Emi

200

Her role as a SNCC activist was brought to national attention in 1964 when she led the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation to the Democratic National Convention.

Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?

200

Name the photographer responsible for the famous portrait titled "Migrant Mother." 

Dorothea Lange
200

The number of Principalities that Prior meets in Heaven. Name three. 

Six. Names are: Europa, Oceania, Africanii, Australia, Antarctica, Asiatica

300

This organization was founded during the AIDS crisis to raise awareness and advocate for the rights of HIV positive people to decent medical care, the benefits of government-funded research, and against prejudice in the public and private sphere.

What is ACT UP?
300

Name the artist AND the dance he is credited with starting that teenagers of the 1950s, and even Jackie Kennedy, couldn't get enough of. 

Chubby Checker - The Twist

300

Name the song that was a blistering indictment of the well-mannered, "go-slow" politics of the 1960s South and that Nina Simone called her "first civil rights song." 

"Mississippi Goddam"

300

She was Roy Cohn's Nurse

Emily

300

The character who offers Ichiro a job

Mr. Carrick

400

They worked together to create the song "Strange Fruit", a protest against lynching.

Who are Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol?

400
Name the song sung by Chuck Berry that told the rags-to-riches tale of music giving a country boy a life beyond his wildest dreams. 

Johnny B. Goode

400

According to Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz, this group believes in forgiveness, and another group believes in guilt. 

"Catholics believe in Forgiveness. Jews believe in Guilt." (25)

400

Where does the letter informing Ichiro's mother that the Japanese Empire won WWII come from?

Sao Paulo (South America is an acceptable answer)

500

In 1932, this organization ran a Black candidate for Vice-President and mobilized black and white workers under the slogan "Equal Rights for Negroes Everywhere".

What is the US Communist Party?

500

Name two of the three musicians who perished in the plane crash that came to be known as "The Day the Music Died." 

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper. 

500

Name the author of the opening epigraph of Perestroika, which reads as follows "Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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