Amazing Activists!
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?
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
Name the singer, actor, dancer, comedian and activist whose public hug with Richard Nixon nearly ended his career in entertainment.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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?
Name the photographer responsible for the famous portrait titled "Migrant Mother."
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.
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
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"
They worked together to create the song "Strange Fruit", a protest against lynching.
Who are Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol?
Johnny B. Goode
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?
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.