Organizers
This SNCC organizer helped lead the Nashville sit-ins and later played a major role in the Freedom Rides.
Who is Diane Nash?
This activist co-founded the Black Panther Party, and created over 60 community programs like free breakfast for school children, food banks, and medical clinics.
Who is Huey P. Newton?
This lawyer argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and later became the first Black Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This author wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and used poetry, memoir, and performance to explore race, identity, and resilience.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This activist, who later changed his name to Kwame Ture, was key in the development of the Black Power Movement.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This activist helped found CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, which used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation.
This Florida minister helped lead the Tallahassee bus boycott after Black students were arrested for challenging bus segregation.
Who is Charles Kenzie Steele?
This NAACP field secretary in Mississippi worked to register Black voters and investigate racial violence before he was assassinated in 1963.
Who is Medgar Evers?
This playwright wrote A Raisin in the Sun, one of the most important plays about Black family life, housing, dreams, and racism.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
This poet, who later became a professor of English, was a vital part of the Black Arts movement.
Who is Nikki Giovanni?
This activist helped organize and pass out leaflets to raise support for the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
This educator and organizer was a major leader of the National Council of Negro Women for decades.
Who is Dorothy Height?
The first black woman to argue before the Supreme Court, this lawyer later become a United States federal judge.
Who is Constance Baker Motley?
This activist’s citizenship schools helped adults learn literacy skills needed to pass voter registration tests.
This activist, who later became a member of the U.S. congress, was one of the Big Six to organize the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is John Lewis?
This leader organized the 1963 March on Washington but often worked behind the scenes because of his sexuality.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
This Maryland activist led the Cambridge Movement and pushed for desegregation, housing rights, and economic justice.
Who is Gloria Richardson?
Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley both worked with this legal organization that fought segregation in the courts. (Full name must be used, not the acronym)
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This behind the scenes leader was a mentor to many activists like Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, and Bob Moses, and was the primary advisor to the SNCC.
Who is Ella Baker?
This activist, who later became an Episcopal priest, coined the term "Jane Crow."
Who is Pauli Murray?
Diane Nash, John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael, Ella Baker, and Bob Moses were all connected to this student-led civil rights organization. (Full name must be used, not the acronym).
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
This activist helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Summer and eventually co-founded and led the National Women's Political Caucus.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This 21-year-old founder of the Rainbow Coalition was killed during a police raid, and his family later won a civil settlement after arguing his death was part of a government-backed assassination.
Who is Fred Hampton?
This writer and public intellectual explored racism, sexuality, religion, and American identity in works such as The Fire Next Time.
Who is James Baldwin?
This activist, who later founded the Algebra Project, a math literacy program to help disadvantaged minority students with math, was the main organizer of the Freedom Summer Project
Who is Bob Moses?