export_civil rights movement

Question 1

Dr. Martin Luther King, JR.

Answer 1

• Leader of SCLC
• Reverend
• Leader of Civil Rights Movement
• Started the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• “I have a dream speech”

Question 2

Rosa Parks

Answer 2

• Sec. for NAACP
• African American woman who refused to abide by public transportation segregation on buses
• arrest was catalyst for Mont. Bus Boycott

Question 3

Malcolm X

Answer 3

• Black Muslim leader

- Promoted AA self defense

Question 4

JFK

Answer 4

• President 1960-1963

- Used the militia to integrate school in Mississippi

Question 5

SCLC

Answer 5

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• MLK
• Non-Violent
• integration and voting rights

Question 6

SNCC

Answer 6

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
• civil disobedience
• sit-ins, integration, freedom rides

Question 7

CORE

Answer 7

• Congress of Racial Equality
• civil disobedience
• freedom rides, sit-ins, marches, March on Washington

Question 8

NAACP

Answer 8

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Formed in 1908 by W.E.B. DuBois and other advocates.
• Fights lawsuits and lobbies for African American rights

Question 9

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Answer 9

• 1954
• Segregation of public schools found unconstitutional (14th Amendment)
• Integrated public schools