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| Who was a silver smith and was in a group called the Sons of Liberty? |
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| Who believed the colonists should be free of British Rule, and was considered a Patriot? |
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| The Patriots participated in a _____________ because of the taxes on goods. This lead to the ___________________________ which was a protest on tea taxes. |
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| Who wanted to warn the Patriots that the Redcoats were coming? |
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| Who worked for the fair treatment of immigrant workers? |
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| Who helped more than 10,000 Mexican Americans help sign up to vote. |
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| Who started a labor union to get better pay and working conditions? He also used a boybott and refused to buy grapes grown from California. |
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| Who formed a non-violent march that was 340 miles and had 20,000 people join. He said "Yes it can be done!" |
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| Who escaped from slavery, dressed up as a sailor and got on board a train, and gave hundreds of anti-slavery speeches? |
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| Who won his greedom from Hugh Auld for $711.66? |
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| Who was the first African american to be on a posstage stamp? |
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| Who started a hospital, and a school for African American girls that grew and became a college? |
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| Who was hired to work in Washington, DC in the National Youth Admisistration? |
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| Who has a statue, is on a stamp, and her dream of going to Africa came true? |
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| Who wsa a member of Congress who wanted to solve the problem of poverty (people not having enough food, good homes, or other necessary things? |
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| Who ran for the united States House of Representatives, won and was the youngest member of Congress at 28 years old? |
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Who fought against segregation?
EX African Americans were not allowed to eat in the same resturants as the other people and had to sit in the back of busses. |
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| Who became Vice President in 1960 in 1960 when John F. Kennedy was President and 2 years later when President Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, became President? |
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| Who's diligence helped Congress pass a law known as the Civil Rights Act? This law helped end segregation? |
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| What was the name of Lyndon B. Johnson's plan that led to more spending on educaiton, housing and health? |
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| What act made tests and other unfair treatment based on race illegal when African Americans were trying to vote? |
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| Who is known as the "War on Poberty" President? |
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| Who has a library and museum in Austin, Texas named after him? |
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| Who went to Howard University Law School in Washington, DC, was the top student in his class, and memorized the Constitution which helped him when he became a lawyer? |
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| Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer for the ______________. |
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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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| Who was the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court? |
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| Who took a school segregation case to the Supreme Court, won the case that said it was unconstitutional that African Americans couldn't go to the same school as other children? |
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| Who was known as "Mr. Civil Rights" because he worked for the rights of all Americans and ended segregation? |
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| Who has a statue in front of the federal building in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. |
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