Race Warriors
This man adopted this name when he forswore his "slave name" (Malcolm Little) and advocated among other things, the idea of ballots or bullets.
Who was Malcolm X?
Speaker of these words: I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Location of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and "Bloody Sunday."
What is Selma, AL?
Civil Rights organization established in 1909. They focused primarily on legal actions as opposed to direct action.
What is the NAACP?
JFK had reached a deal to make sure that these civil rights supporters were not killed by the United Klan of America. Of course the other part of the deal meant jail time.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
Smahtest racist in Georgia, also a local police chief.
Who was Laurie Pritchett?
First African-American on the Supreme Court AND lawyer for the NAACP in the Brown v. Board Decision.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
James Meredith's Alma Mater.
What is Ole Miss?
MLK, Abernathy, and Shuttlesworth were the leaders of this nation-wide civil rights organization.
What is SCLC?
Initially, JFK's idea then pushed forward by MLK's speech, passed thanks to LBJ. It made discrimination in Public Accommodations illegal.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Famous for running for president as a "Dixiecrat" in 1968, he also called for "segregation now, segregation, tomorrow, and segregation forever."
Who was George Wallace?
US President who sent the 101st Airborne Division to help 9 African-American students attend High School following the Brown Decision.
Who was Ike?
Bull Connor's town, site of the Children's Crusade.
What is Birmingham, AL?
Notable for the Nashville sit-ins and the Freedom Rides, they were a Civil Rights organization that focused on direct action but eventually strayed away from civil disobedience.
What is SNCC?
Assassin of MLK.
Who was James Earl Ray?
Commissioner of Public Safety in the most racist major city in America. He liked to play with dogs and fire hoses.
Who was Bull Connor?
NAACP secretary whose arrest initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
Site of a major defeat for MLK, home of Laurie Pritchet.
What is Albany, GA?
Nation-wide civil rights organization with strong local chapters. They help organize the Freedom Riders and the March on Washington. In the south they fought against segregation; in the north, de facto segregation and equality for workers.
What is CORE?
2 Leaders of the Black Panthers. One was part of the Chicago Seven, the other was famed for killing a cop and getting away with it.
Who were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?
The Governor of AR who refused to allow the Little Rock Nine into the high school.
Who was Ross Barnett?
NAACP lawyer who help James Meredith get into college, and was then killed by Byron De La Beckwith in 1963.
Who was Medgar Evers?
Scene of the race riot in 1965 that saw a week of rioting and 3,500 arrests all because of a DUI.
What is Watts? (LA)
At one time this was the organization that Malcolm X represented but they ultimately killed him.
What is the Nation of Islam?
Emmett Till's grandfather who identified his kill by saying "Dar he."
Who was Mose Wright?