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US History FInal 3Q
People to know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first American to orbit the Earth | Alan Shephard |
| Allegedly assasinated President John F Kennedy in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Leader of China's communists who became the leader in 1949 | Mao Tse tung |
| Young black boy from Chicago who was beat to death for saying "bye baby" to a young white woman in Money, Mississippi | Emmett Till |
| Said "In Alabama, I say, segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation Forever!" | George Wallace |
| Black lawyer who defended Linda Brown and became a hero when he won the case; he also was the first black appointed to the Supreme Court. | Thurgood Marshall |
| Said the following "...the state of Alabama will be transformed into a situation where black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with white boys and white girls and walk together as brothers and sisters." | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Former secretary of the NAACP who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus launching a new era in civil rights in the south | Rosa Parks |
| Black Muslim leader who early on called for a sperate black nation and the need for self-defense | Malcom X |
| Was charged, convicted, and executed for selling atomic secrets to the Soviet Union | The Rosenbergs |
| Leader of the Chinese Nationalists who was supported the U.S. | Chiang Kai-shek |