Early Life
He was born in this state
South Carolina
He dropped out of seminary to focus on this movement
Civil Right
He ran for this highest ranking political position
President of the U.S.A.
The first Black President
Barack Obama
As a child, he attended these kind of schools.
Racially segregated
He became close friends with this Civil Rights icon
Martin Luther King Jr.
He said the U.S.A. was not actually a melting pot, but more like this cloth item
A quilt
Oregon was the only free (non-slave) state to have this in it's constitution
A black exclusion law
His first major protest was a sit in at a whites only ___.
His own Civil Rights organization was called Operation___
Push
He was one of the first "Shadow ____"
Senators
The underground "railroad" was in fact a series of these
Houses
After graduating college, he moved here
Chicago
He participated in one of the most publicized civil rights marches between these two cities
Selma to Montgomery
One of his sons now represents this state in Congress
Illinois
The "N word" originates from this Spanish word meaning "black"
Negro