Part 2 Fighting For A Cause

I wanted women to have the right to vote.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Rosa Parks

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Eleanor Roosevelt

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I was the first African American to play baseball in the major leagues.

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Jackie Robinson

• Cesar Chavez

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CCSS.RL.8.3

I was called, "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."

• Susan B. Anthony

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Rosa Parks

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I was a First Lady and helped allow Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial.

• Rosa Parks

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Susan B. Anthony

• Mary McLeod Bethune

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I started a school for African American children in Daytona Beach, Florida.

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Rosa Parks

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Susan B. Anthony

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I worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and traveled the country giving speeches on women's rights.

• Rosa Parks

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Susan B. Anthony

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I gave my "I Have A Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

• Jackie Robinson

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Cesar Chavez

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CCSS.RL.8.3

I refused to move and give up my seat on a bus to a white person.

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Rosa Parks

• Susan B. Anthony

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I fought for migrant workers to receive better pay and more reasonable working conditions.

• Jackie Robinson

• Cesar Chavez

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Franklin Roosevelt

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CCSS.RL.8.3

I worked with Rosa Parks to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Jesse Jackson

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Jackie Robinson

• Cesar Chavez

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