Leaders

Question 1

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 1

• opposed the spread of slavery

- Emancipation proclamation 1863

Question 2

Andrew Johnson

Answer 2

• opposed anti slavery legislation
• 13th amendment
• 14th amendment
  15th amendment
• civil rights act 1866

Question 3

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 3

• fought for equal terms with full rights of citizenship

Question 4

Radical Republicans

Answer 4

• right to live out the American dream which should apply to former slaves
• wanted harsher treatment for the south and were keener on giving rights to the newly liberated slaves

Question 5

Blanche K Bruce

Answer 5

• first black leader: local politician who gained the support of a number of white republicans in the government
• lacked support from others and was unable to help increase civil rights

Question 6

Frederick Douglass

Answer 6

• leading black opponent of slavery
• set up his own anti slavery newspaper
• he refused the offer to run the freedmans bureau because he disproved of Andrew Johnson’s policies

Question 7

KKK

Answer 7

• active mainly in the southern states
• ## advocated white supremacy

Question 8

Roosevelt

Answer 8

• supported the progressive movement but did not really address the question of black civil rights
• meetings with Booker T Washington

Question 9

Ida B Wells

Answer 9

Her campaign against discrimination Bergson in 1884 when she refused to give up her seat on a train

• she sued the railway company
• public opposition to lynching after her friends were falsely accused of rape

Question 10

Booker T Washington

Answer 10

• Tuskegee institute

- main leader and spokesman for black people for 10 years

Question 11

WEB DUBOIS

Answer 11

• helped to found the Niagara movement in 1905
• founded the NAACP in 1909
  -the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University
• the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
• ## Montgomery bus boycott

Question 12

NAACP

Answer 12

• founded in 1909, the year after the spring field riot
• first successful nationwide civil rights organisation to campaign systematically for black civil rights
• played a significant role in the fight for the legal end of segregation

Question 13

Marcus Garvey

Answer 13

• founded the UNIA in 1917
• charismatic black leader, put forward the idea of black power
• inspired by Booker T
• saw a return to Africa as the only solution

Question 14

Congress of racial equality

Answer 14

• set up in 1942 to protest against de facto racial segregation
• committed to achieving integration
• ## sent some of its members to help in the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 15

Martin Luther king

Answer 15

• set up the SCLC
• match in Washington
• March on Selma

Question 16

SCLC

Answer 16

• formed in 1957
• organised campaigns
• The SCLC also broadened its focus to include issues of economic inequality, starting the Poor People’s Campaign in 1967.

Question 17

Ella Baker

Answer 17

• ran a black voters registration campaign as early as the 1930s
• moved to Atlanta to assist King and the SCLC

Question 18

SNCC

Answer 18

• set up as a result of the sit ins
• contributed participants to the 1961 Freedom Rides, cosponsored the 1963 March on Washington, and contributed to voter education and registration drives across the South.

Question 19

Malcolm X

Answer 19

• conversion to the Nation of Islam
• became the national spokesman
• black power

Question 20

Stokeley Carmichael

Answer 20

• he was an organiser for sncc
• joined the black panthers in in 1967
• freedom rider

Question 21

Black panthers

Answer 21

• started in Oakland California
• received national attention by armed parades of self defence
• founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community
• At its peak in 1968, the Black Panther Party had roughly 2,000 members

Question 22

FEPC

Answer 22

• set up by Roosevelt in 1941
• attempt to prevent discrimination in government jobs
• ## the FEPC was intended to help African Americans and other minorities obtain jobs in home front industries during World War II.

Question 23

Jesse Jackson

Answer 23

• organised operation bread basket
• in 1971, he founded PUSH
• successful in getting thousands of new jobs for African Americans
• campaigned for presidency x2 (1984 and 1988 second AA)
• National Rainbow Coalition, whose mission was to establish equal rights for African Americans, women and homosexuals

Question 24

Shirley Chisholm

Answer 24

• first AA to make a bid for US presidency in 1972

Question 25

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Answer 25

- goal of uniting all of African diaspora to "establish a country and absolute government of their own." - In 1918, Garvey began publishing the widely distributed newspaper Negro World - Garvey and U.N.I.A. had launched the Black Star Line