Minorities History

Question 1

Booker T. Washington

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The dominant leader in the African American community.

Question 2

W.E.B Du Bois

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Leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks.

Question 3

Marcus Garvey

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A staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements and founded the UNIA-ACL

Question 4

A. Philip Randolph

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A leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties

Question 5

Langston Hughes

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Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City

Question 6

Zora Neale Hurston

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An American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist

Question 7

Martin Luther King

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The main leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.

Question 8

Malcolm X

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An American Muslim minister and human rights activist. One of the Nation of Islam’s most influential leaders.

Question 9

Stokely Carmichael

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A Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement, and the global

Question 10

James Meredith

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First African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi

Question 11

NAACP

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An African-American civil rights organization. Its goals are to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.

Question 12

SCLC

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An African-American civil rights organization. Had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.

Question 13

SNCC

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One of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s; played part in many Civil Rights roles.

Question 14

Black Panthers

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A revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization. Its core practice was its armed citizens’ patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality.

Question 15

Nation of Islam

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An Islamic religious movement whose goals were to improve the spiritual

Question 16

Anne Hutchinson

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A Puritan spiritual adviser and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay.

Question 17

Abigail Adams

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The designated second First Lady of the US, gave a lot of advice to John during the Revolutionary War.

Question 18

Susan B. Anthony

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An American social reformer and feminist who played an important role in the women’s suffrage movement. She collected anti-slavery petitions and became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society

Question 19

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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An American suffragist, social activists, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women’s rights movement. Create the Declaration of Sentiments and is credited with initiating the first organized women’s rights and women’s suffrage movements in the US.