Minorities History Flashcards
Booker T. Washington
The dominant leader in the African American community.
W.E.B Du Bois
Leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks.
Marcus Garvey
A staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements and founded the UNIA-ACL
A. Philip Randolph
A leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties
Langston Hughes
Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City
Zora Neale Hurston
An American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist
Martin Luther King
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.
Malcolm X
An American Muslim minister and human rights activist. One of the Nation of Islam’s most influential leaders.
Stokely Carmichael
A Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement, and the global
James Meredith
First African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi
NAACP
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.
SCLC
An African-American civil rights organization. Had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
SNCC
One of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s; played part in many Civil Rights roles.
Black Panthers
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.
Nation of Islam
An Islamic religious movement whose goals were to improve the spiritual
Anne Hutchinson
A Puritan spiritual adviser and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay.
Abigail Adams
The designated second First Lady of the US, gave a lot of advice to John during the Revolutionary War.
Susan B. Anthony
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
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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.
