Civil Rights UIL - Week 2

Founder of American GI Forum in 1948, Hispanic Civil rights activist, and a veteran of WWII.

Baptist minister & leader of the SCLC, an organization of pastors advocating for civil rights

The city in which Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in on April 4, 1968

Poet with a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance. Wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

He shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968

Created the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) & idea of Medicare and Medicaid.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s wife.

Leader of the nation of Islam Elijah Muhammad probably ordered the murder of this once follower

Secretary of NAACP who spurred the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Dec. 1, 1955.

SNCC leader; recruited black & white volunteers to register Miss. rural blacks to vote in 1961

NAACP attorney who successfully argued the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Penned the Letter from Birmingham Jail

American civil rights lawyer with NAACP & first black justice on the US Supreme Court in 1967

The federal facility taken over by Native American (AIM) activists in 1969

Sent federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders in 1963 riding from Wash. DC to Birmingham

Author of Brown Girl, Brownstones & mother of the black women's renaissance of the early 1970s

Noted orator who organized peaceful mass demonstrations, including the March on Washington.

Worked with C. Chavez to form Nat. Farm Workers Asso. Taught migrants how to become citizens

Delivered a televised address to the nation on June 11 1963 after the violence in Birmingham.

The U.S. Attorney General from 1961-1963 who helped enforce civil rights laws in the South.

Led War on Poverty as part of his Great Society & also provided food stamps & welfare to needy

Civil rights advocate who spurred a 1962 riot by attempting to register at the Univ of Miss

One of "Big Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s elected to Congress in 1987

The city where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan while running for president

Black civil rights leader who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 but lost.

Organized the American Indian Movement (AIM) In 1969 and the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973

Head of National Woman's party that campaigned for equal rights amendment to the Constitution

During Meredith crisis at Ole Miss, this Lt Gov supported defiance of the U. S. Supreme Court

Freedom Rider who also led the demonstration that became known as "Bloody Sunday" in Selma

Co-founder of the Black Panthers & convicted of manslaughter in 1967 death of a police officer

U.S. senator from New York assassinated as a presidential candidate in 1968 in California

President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

1st black hailing from NY to be elected in 1945 to the House & serve 12 terms as representative

Refused to serve blacks at Pickrick Restaurant & closed it rather than comply with federal law

President of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in Dallas in 1963.

1st openly elected gay politician in California. Assassinated while in office in 1978.

Refused admittance into Alabama in 1952 due to loose morals by having a child out of wedlock

Martin Luther King's personal assistant and traveling companion throughout the 1960s

Refused to give up seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery & triggered civil rights movement