Iconic Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement

Preview · 12 questions

• 01·Who delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the 1963 March on Washington?
• 02·Which activist is famous for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott after refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger?
• 03·Who served as the lead attorney for the NAACP in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
• 04·A prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement, who was a leading minister and national spokesman for the Nation of Islam before his assassination in 1965?
• 05·A key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who later served many terms as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia?
• 06·Which sociologist, historian, and activist was a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909?
• 07·Who was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and a key advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. on the principles of nonviolent resistance?
• 08·Along with Bobby Seale, who co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California, in 1966?
• 09·Which sharecropper-turned-activist was instrumental in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and famously declared, "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired"?
• 10·Known as the "Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement," which activist worked behind the scenes for decades, helping to organize the SCLC and mentoring leaders of SNCC?
• 11·Which World War II veteran and Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP was assassinated in his driveway in 1963, sparking national outrage?
• 12·Who served as the Executive Secretary of the NAACP from 1955 to 1977, leading the organization through the height of the Civil Rights Movement?