STAAR Review - The Civil Rights Era and The Cold War

Grandson of a slave, became the first African American to play professional baseball

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Stokely Carmichael

Political activist best known for leading the civil rights group SNCC in the 1960s; in 1967 he left SNCC and became prime minister of the more radical Black Panthers

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Stokely Carmichael

American Muslim minister and human rights activist; noted for his different approach to civil rights movement advocating separation and black supremacy; Dr. King did not agree with his preachings

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Stokely Carmichael

argued in the Brown v. Board of Education case for the NAACP and became the first African American on the Supreme Court

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Stokely Carmichael

Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white passenger; led to Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Stokely Carmichael

Leader of the Civil Rights Movement; preached nonviolent approach and demanded equal rights

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Stokely Carmichael

Arkansas Governor who ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Little Rock’s ‘Central High’ to prevent 9 African American students from enrolling.

• Lester Maddox

• George Wallace

• Orval Faubus

• Southern Bloc of Democrats

Alabama Gov. who stood in the doorway of University of Alabama to prevent blacks from enrolling.

• Lester Maddox

• George Wallace

• Orval Faubus

• Southern Bloc of Democrats

A white restaurant owner wielded an axe at African Americans wanting to enter his whites-only restaurant, Maddox was later elected the governor of Georgia

• Lester Maddox

• George Wallace

• Orval Faubus

• Southern Bloc of Democrats

a WW II veteran, became a Civil Rights leader when he noticed that Mexican Americans were often barred from restaurants, voting, hospitals, swimming pools, and limited employment opportunities.

• Dolores Huera

• Betty Friedan

• Hector P. Garcia

• Cesar Chavez