Civil Rights Flashcards
What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Act, passed in August 1965?
March to Selma
What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the Poor People’s Campaign March on Washington, D.C. after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Ralph Abernathy
Who advocated “equality for every man, self-defense and self-help”?
Malcom X
What civil rights group was organized on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1909 in New York City?
The NAACP
James Farmer was the co-founder and executive director of what civil rights organization?
Congress of Racial Equity
What journalist, newspaper editor and suffragist sued a Tennessee railroad for not allowing her to sit in the “Whites Only” first-class car when she had paid for a first-class ticket?
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Booker T. Washington was opposed to the founding of what organization?
National Association of the Advancement of Colored People
Who founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1964
Malcolm X
What African American lead became more willing to work with nonviolent civil rights organizations and liberal whites after experiencing a change of heart in Mecca
Malcolm X
What African American union organizer helped open the door for US congress to pass legislation outlawing job discrimination
Philip Randolph
What African American civil right activist founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, PA in 1816
Richard Allen
Which leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women’s suffrage organization, the Alpha Suffrage Club, in Chicago in 1913
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of what child advocacy group
Children’s defense fund
What African American activist said “The content of one’s character is the important thing, not the color of one’s skin
Martin Luther King Jr
How long did the Montgomery bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr last
385 days
