Key individuals

Question 1

Booker T Washington

Answer 1

Famous black American who advocated accepting segregation.

Question 2

President Wilson

Answer 2

Southern president that introduced segregation to the White House

Question 3

President Harding

Answer 3

President opposed to segregation, but did not act on it because he was bound by a policy of laissez-faire.

Question 4

Father Divine

Answer 4

Member of the Peace Mission Church in Harlem, who set up restaurants and shops that sold goods to black people at lower costs than white-run stores

Question 5

President Truman

Answer 5

Supported civil rights. Proposed anti-lynching. anti-segregation and fair employment laws in 1954, but failed to push them through. In 1946, Truman set up the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, which called for equal opportunities in work and housing. In 1948, Truman issued executive orders desegregating the military and all work done for the government.

Question 6

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 6

First black American to ever serve on the Supreme Court. Had previously worked for the NAACP and became its chief legal counsel in 1940. It was Marshall who argued the Brown vs Board of Education case in 1954. He took 32 segregation cases to court and won 29 of them.

Question 7

Marcus Garvey

Answer 7

Separatist that advocated going back to Africa. Pan-Africanism

Question 8

Claudette Colvin

Answer 8

A girl in Montgomery that was arrested for sitting at the front of the bus. Her case was turned down by the NAACP because she was 15, unmarried and pregnant.

Question 9

Rosa Parks

Answer 9

A respectable NAACP member that was arrested for sitting at the front of the bus.

Question 10

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 10

The face of black American civil rights. Set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957

Question 11

Orval Faubus

Answer 11

Racist governor of Arkansas. Tried to stop the Little Rock Nine from attending Central High School by sending in the National Guard in 1957

Question 12

James Farmer

Answer 12

Member of CORE that organised the Freedom Rides in 1961.

Question 13

Malcolm X

Answer 13

Influential member of the Nation of Islam- an Islamic group that advocated black supremacy. Advocated violent protest. Assassinated by the Nation of Islam in 1965.

Question 14

President Kennedy

Answer 14

Sent in federal troops to Birmingham in 1963, leading to the desegregation of the town.

Question 15

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 15

Founder of the Lowndes County Freedom Organisation. Advocated the use of violence, influential in the Black Power movement.