Civil Rights Leaders and Activists Trivia Challenge

Civil Rights Leaders and Activists
Trivia Challenge
Civil Rights Leaders and Activists
Explore the leaders, organizers, court battles, boycotts, marches, and voting-rights work that shaped American history.
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This civil rights leaders challenge follows major figures tied to nonviolent protest, bus boycotts, school desegregation, farm labor organizing, voting rights, congressional firsts, and the March on Washington.
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  1. Which lawyer argued the school desegregation case that helped overturn “separate but equal” before later serving on the U.S. Supreme Court?
  2. Which civil rights leader was badly beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and later served for decades in the U.S. House of Representatives?
  3. Which Mississippi activist told the 1964 Democratic National Convention credentials committee that she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired”?
  4. Which NAACP field secretary was assassinated in Mississippi after working on voter registration, school desegregation, and investigations of racial violence?
  5. Which longtime organizer helped coordinate the 1963 March on Washington but often worked behind the scenes because of prejudice against him?
  6. Which political trailblazer became the first Black woman elected to Congress and later ran for a major-party presidential nomination?
  7. Which farm labor leader helped build a movement around grape boycotts, migrant workers, and nonviolent organizing in California?
  8. Which minister helped lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later gave the “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington?
  9. Which organizer co-founded the United Farm Workers and popularized the phrase “Sí, se puede” during labor-rights activism?
  10. Which activist’s refusal to give up her bus seat helped spark a major boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?
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