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Civil Rights Leaders
You Gotta Know These African-American Civil Rights Leaders
| Clue | Leader |
|---|---|
| Leader of the Pan-African and Black Power movements who popularized the term "Black Power" | Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) |
| Replaced John Lewis as chair of SNCC, shifting the group from nonviolence to a militant approach | Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) |
| Served as "honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party before distancing himself due to beliefs about white activist participation | Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) |
| Democratic politician from NY; the first black woman elected to Congress (1968) and the first black major-party presidential candidate (1972) | Shirley Chisholm |
| Gave an acclaimed speech in support of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1970 | Shirley Chisholm |
| NAACP’s field secretary for Mississippi who planned boycotts, advocated ending segregation at "Ole Miss", and applied to law school there | Medgar Evers |
| Assassinated in 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens’ Councils | Medgar Evers |
| Civil rights activist and politician; protégé of MLK Jr.; helped organize Operation Breadbasket | Jesse Jackson Sr. |
| Founded Operation PUSH and the National Rainbow Coalition (now Rainbow/PUSH Coalition) | Jesse Jackson Sr. |
| Ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 | Jesse Jackson Sr. |
| Baptist minister and most prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and ’60s | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Leader of the SCLC who organized the Selma-to-Montgomery marches and the Poor People’s Campaign | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| First African-American person admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962 (which caused riots) | James Meredith |
| Began the March Against Fear in 1966, during which he was wounded by a sniper | James Meredith |
| Arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 | Rosa Parks |
| Collaborated with Edgar Nixon and the NAACP to organize the Montgomery bus boycott | Rosa Parks |
| Baptist minister and community leader from NYC; perennial political candidate who worked under Jesse Jackson | Al Sharpton |
| Handled publicity for Tawana Brawley in 1987; accused of making anti-Semitic remarks during the 1991 Crown Heights riot | Al Sharpton |
| Early investigative journalist and civil rights leader who helped found the NAACP; investigated lynching in the 1890s | Ida B. Wells |
| Authored pamphlets such as Southern Horrors and The Red Record regarding lynching | Ida B. Wells |
| Black Muslim civil rights activist who changed his surname from Little; converted to the Nation of Islam | Malcolm X |
| Repudiated the Nation of Islam, became a mainstream Sunni Muslim, and completed the hajj in 1964 | Malcolm X |
| Known for rejecting nonviolent activism and arguing for necessary violence in his speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” | Malcolm X |
| Assassinated in 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom | Malcolm X |
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