African-American Civil Rights Leaders Flashcards
Question: The second chapter of this man’s major work examines the title concept’s “Need and Substance,” using V.O. Key and Hans Morgenthau texts for definitions employed in discussing W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. The preface to one of this thinker’s works cites Frederick Douglass before examining the “Third World” of Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in the context of black Americans. That book, titled after his most notable concept, was co-authored by Charles Hamilton and included the first extensive treatment of a “sense of superior group position,” termed “institutional racism.” The shooting of James Meredith at the March Against Fear led this man to formulate his most notable concept after he exclaimed, “the only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over!” For 10 points, name this Pan-Africanist American civil rights leade, who led SNCC and popularized the term “black power.”
Stokely Carmichael
Question: This activist organized the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which inspired Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to call themselves the Black Panthers. During college, this man took an active role in the Nonviolent Action Group, and in 1966 he replaced John Lewis as Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. That briefly held position was followed by a brief association with the Black Panthers, which this man left because he did not want to work with white liberals. Late in life, this activist changed his first name to match the President of Ghana’s and his last name to match the President of Guinea’s. In 1998, he died from prostate cancer after pushing for Pan-Africanism in Guinea. Name this activist who along with Willie Ricks popularized the political slogan Black Power.
Stokely Carmichael
Question: With Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, this man organized a campaign with the slogan “Don’t Buy Gas Where You Can’t Use a Restroom.” This man was the inspiration for the writing of the play Blues for Mister Charlie, a work by James Baldwin, and this man was the subject of the (+) Bob Dylan song “Only a Pawn in Their Game.” This man’s wife Myrlie wrote a book in this man’s honor entitled For Us, the Living and served as the chair of the NAACP’s board of directors in the mid-1990s. This man publicly investigated the murder of Emmett Till while serving as the NAACP’s first field secretary in (*) Mississippi. For 10 points, name this civil rights activist who was assassinated by Byron de la Beckwith in 1963.
Medgar Evers
1: This NAACP field secretary was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith in Mississippi, a crime for which De La Beckwith was finally imprisoned for in 1994.
Medgar Evers
1: Name this D-Day veteran, who tried to integrate his state’s public law school in 1954.
Medgar Evers
Question: This man negotiated with Hafez Assad to secure the release of pilot Bobby Goodman from Syrian captivity. This man’s falling out with Ralph David Abernathy led to this man leaving the SCLC. This onetime leader of Operation Breadbasket also founded People United to Save Humanity. For 10 points, name this minister and civil rights activist who founded the Rainbow Coalition and ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.
Jesse Jackson (Sr.)
Question: Before adopting a liberal abortion position, this politician claimed that abortion was murder and “could have killed Moses and Jesus” during a presidential campaign. This politician boosted his domestic profile with the 1983 release Robert Goodman’s release by Hafez al-Assad and the 1984 release of twenty-two Americans by Fidel Castro, helping him win third place in primaries behind Gary Hart and Walter Mondale. Protests against this politician’s suspension from the SCLC were organized by (*) Al Sharpton. This man, who organized People United to Save Humanity, or PUSH, has a son of the same name was convicted on accounts of wire and mail fraud, leading him to resign as an Illinois congressman and serve 30 months in federal prison. This man’s failed 1988 campaign for president aimed to mobilize a “Rainbow Coalition” of minorities and progressives. For 10 points, name this civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
Jesse Jackson (Sr.)
2: Robin Kelly won the special election to replace this man who resigned in 2012. This man had previously worked with his father in Operation PUSH and was recently sentenced to prison for taking campaign money for personal use.
Jesse Jackson (Sr.)
Question: Benjamin Hays’s call for churches to be more involved in society steered this man away from a medical career. Doctors dubbed him “a sneeze away from death” after Izola Ware Curry stabbed him with a letter opener; ten years later, he was killed at the (*) Lorraine Motel. He joined with Ralph Abernathy to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after his involvement in the Montgomery bus boycott. For 10 points, name this man who was shot in Memphis four years after the March on Washington, where he delivered the “I have a dream” speech.
Martin Luther King Jr
Question: During the 1960 presidential campaign, a woman with this married name was telephoned by John F. Kennedy after her husband was jailed for driving with an out-of-state license. George Holliday videotaped a notorious action carried out against a man with this last name by Stacey Koon. A man with this surname gave the controversial speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” in 1967. That same man never had a chance to organize a (*) Poor People’s March after stopping over to support a strike by sanitation workers. The acquittal of police officers who beat a man with this surname sparked riots that damaged much of Koreatown in LA in 1992. For 10 points, give this surname shared by the man shot by James Earl Ray and who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech.
King
Question: This man wrote that Christianity allows man’s physical body to elevate him to the level of the “pure spirit” of God in an essay titled “What is Man” that calls for the “lost” United States to become a prodigal son. This man called for supporters to use “soul force” in a work that demands avoiding the “tranquilizing drug of gradualism” This man argued for true compassion and claimed we can no longer afford to “bow before the altar of retaliation” in a work that argues if “America’s soul becomes totally poisioned, part of its autopsy must read: Vietnam”. In another speech he reminded Americans of their right to “protest for their rights” and ends it by claiming that he had “up on that mountain … [and] seen the Promised Land”. That speech was delivered in support of sanitation works a day before this man was assassinated in Memphis. For 10 points, name this American Civil Rights and religious leader who delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Question: zola Curry nearly killed this man during a book signing in 1958. This man led a marchacross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and he helped form the SouthernChristian Leadership Conference. This minister delivered the (*) “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”speech the day before he was shot by James Earl Ray in 1968. For 10 points, name this civil rightsleader who delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Question: In a speech adapted from one by J. Wallace Hamilton, this man noted that Alfred Adler identified the “quest for recognition” as the basic human impulse, an impulse he termed the “Drum Major Instinct.” He noted that when “profit motives…are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered” in a speech explaining “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam.” In his last speech, he claimed to have “seen the promised land” and “been to the mountaintop.” He noted that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” in a “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” For 10 points, name this orator who envisioned a day when his “four children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” in his “I Have a Dream” Speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Question: This man wrote that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. This organizer of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hoped that his children would be judged by “the content of their character” in his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial. For 10 points, the “I Have A Dream” speech was given by what civil rights leader commemorated on a January holiday?
Martin Luther King Jr
Question: This man worked with Bayard Rustin, who resigned from this man’s organization after Adam Clayton Powell accused Rustin of homosexuality. In one address, he claimed the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” was his own government; in one writing, he claimed “‘Wait!’ has almost always meant ‘Never’” and described a girl tearing up over a television ad for Funland. He founded the SCLC near Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and helped organize the Selma marches. For 10 points, name this activist who was shot in Memphis by James Earl Ray, an organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott who delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
MLK
