Civil Rights UIL - Week 1

Dem. senator from Miss. blocked any attempts at racial injustice to preserve "racial purity."

Episcopal clergy and civil rights activist murdered in 1965 in Alabama protecting a black girl

Called for higher education for 10% of African Americans-what he called a "Talented Tenth".

Led India to independence from Great Britain through passive resistance and civil disobedience

American feminist, activist and writer best known for her book "The Feminine Mystique".

Washington Post editor who covered the strategy of massive resistance to school desegregation

She worked for the American Anti-Slavery Society at 14 & helped with passage of 19th Amendment

Slave trader & Civil War general who became one of the first Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan

He was quoted as saying "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong."

Challenged the legality of the segregated Democratic Party at the 1968 Democratic Convention

He was convicted in 1994 for the murder of Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers in Mississippi.

President of the National Women's Suffrage Ass. who helped in the passage of the 19th Amendment

Gov. who called out National Guard to prevent 9 blacks from entering Little Rock's Central High

Governor of Mississippi who tried to prevent James Meredith from entering Ole Miss

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard & founder of Niagara Movement (later the NAACP)

Singer and activist who achieved lasting fame for such songs as 'The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)

Black author who, in his The Invisible Man, explored the theme of the lonely individual

Executive director of the SCLC; urged student sit-in leaders to create own organization (SNCC)

Non-violent leader of the United Farm Workers in the 60s who organized strikes in the southwest

American journalist and NY Times reporter who covered Nashville's first sit-ins in 1960

As the leader of this organization, J. Edgar Hoover investigated alleged radicals as Communists

Leader in the disability community & a lifelong civil rights advocate for disadvantaged people

SNCC leader instrumental in organizing the Freedom Summer Ride protests in Mississippi in 1964

Baptist minister & MLK Jr.'s successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Birmingham public safety commissioner known for jailing & water-hosing of peaceful protesters.

American poet who replaced Bayard Rustin as the director of the SCLC's New York office.

Essayist known for 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain about the black experience in America

Civil rights leader who was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, MS in 1963

First African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize & awarded Medal of Freedom by Pres. JFK

U.S. President in 1957 who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first since Reconstruction

Former SNCC leader who swayed from peaceful disobedience in favor of advocating for black power

Author of 'A Raisin in the Sun';the 1st play produced on Broadway by an African-American woman

Poet best known as the 1st African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for 1949 book Annie Allen.

1920s black leader who advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa