Civil Rights Leaders
Civil rights leader known for his speech.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
Singer, songwriter, dancer, and one of the most influential and iconic pop music entertainers of all time
What is Micheal Jackson.
Escapes to Philadelphia and helps nearly 300 other enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad in 1859.
What is Harriet Tubman.
First Black President.
What is Barack Obama.
Rosa Parks initiated this.
What is Bus Boycott.
Former Nation of Islam minister/civil-rights activist who was murdered in 1965.
What is Malcolm X.
One of the most influential artists in jazz history, master jazz trumpeter.
What is Louis Armstrong.
Became the first black general in the U.S army in 1940.
What is Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.
This organization was founded in 1909.
What is NAACP.
What Martin Luther King Jr. is known for, other than him being a Civil Rights Leader.
What is I have a dream speech.
A civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S.
What is Thurgood Marshall.
African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century.
What is Marian Anderson.
Led Harpers Ferry slave revolt in 1859.
What is John Brown.
Becomes first integrated high school in 1957.
What is Little Rock Central High.
What does the 15th amendment state?
What is guarantees that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color or previous servitude.
Co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942.
What is James Farmer.
An American jazz pianist and vocalist. Became the first African American performer to host a variety TV. series in 1956.
What is Nat King Cole.
First Black woman surgeon general in 1993.
What is Dr. Joycelyn Elders.
Ralph Bunche is known for accomplishing this.
What is the first black person to win a Nobel Piece prize.
Two men who confessed to doing this action for allegedly whistling at a white woman are acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955.
What is the murder of Emmet Till.
One of the organizers of the historic March on Washington (1963) as well as an important advisor to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon.
The "Genius" and the "Father of the Soul Music.
What is Ray Charles.
Signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is President Johnson.
In Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, U.S. Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in public schools violates this amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment.
This occurred in Washington D.C, 1961.
What is Freedom Rides.