Key Figures

Question 1

Ella Baker

Answer 1

The organizer
Emphasized grassroots mobilization and membership empowerment from the ground up
Conducted organizing in churches, beer halls, pool rooms- wherever the people gathered
Helped run the SCLC and YNCL

Question 2

A. Philip Randolph

Answer 2

Organized the March on Washington movement
President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union, the biggest Black union

Question 3

Rosa Parks

Answer 3

Was the leading force of the Montgomery bus boycott because she refused to give up her seat and was arrested

Question 4

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 4

The reverend who led the Montgomery bus boycott and became the “face” of the civil rights movement

Question 5

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 5

Lawyer
Concentrated on legal strategy and court victories to dismantle segregation

Question 6

Charles Hamilton Houston

Answer 6

The legal architect, “social engineer or a parasite,” was the first director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Question 7

Emmett and Maime Till

Answer 7

Emmett was a boy who was kidnapped and murdered
Maime was his mother and made a decision to have an open casket funeral to show people what they did to her son. He was the sacrificial lamb

Question 8

Jo Ann Robinson

Answer 8

Helped prepare for the boycott by spreading the word and gathering supplies for posters, flyers, etc
Founded WPC

Question 9

Diane Nash

Answer 9

Student leader in SNCC

Question 10

James Lawson

Answer 10

Helped draft the SNCC’s statement of purpose
Minister

Question 11

Bayard Rustin

Answer 11

Helped form the SCLC

Question 12

W.E.B. Du Bois

Answer 12

One of the founding members of the NAACP
Editor of the newspaper The Crisis
“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line.”

Question 13

Booker T. Washington

Answer 13

Advocated for industrial (agricultural) education

Question 14

Marcus Garvey

Answer 14

Garveyism
Led Black Pride movement around WW1
Expressed Black nationalism and expressed the need for a Black nation-state

Question 15

Ida B. Wells

Answer 15

Anti-lynching crusader