Civil RIghts VIPs

Question 1

Cesar Chavez

Answer 1

Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist who focused on the struggle of farm workers to improve their working and living conditions (through organizing and negotiating contracts with their employers)

Question 2

Dolores Huerta

Answer 2

Through her work with the UFW (United Farm Workers), Huerta organized workers, negotiated contracts, and advocated for safer working conditions, unemployment, and healthcare for agricultural workers.

Question 3

Betty Friedan

Answer 3

Championed several related causes for women: equal pay for equal work, an end to sexual harassment in the workplace, and legalization of abortion.

Question 4

Sandra Day O’Connor

Answer 4

American retired attorney and politician who served as the first female associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Question 5

Sonia Sotomayor

Answer 5

Fought for the protection of affirmative action programs (writing a 58-page dissent which held the prohibitions to state universities considering race in admission decisions was constitutional)

Question 6

Rosa Parks

Answer 6

Refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, starting the Montgomery bus boycotts.

Question 7

Martin Luther King (MLK)

Answer 7

Baptist minister from Montgomery, Alabama who led the nonviolent arm of the civil rights movement and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Question 8

Malcolm X

Answer 8

A leader in the civil rights movement and a supporter of Black Nationalism, he argued for black power, black self-defense, and black economic autonomy, and encouraged racial pride.

Question 9

Thurgood Marshall