SS8H7c – Success Criteria

________________________ - a civil rights activist who led the Niagara Movement and later helped form the NAACP.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

________________________ - someone who is good at giving public speeches.

• Orator

• Writer

• Listener

• Artist

________________________ - a man who was born into slavery and rose to become a leading African American intellectual of the 19th century, founding Tuskegee Institute in 1881, and remembered as the most influential African American speaker of his time.

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• George Washington Carver

________________________ - abbreviation for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an American organization of Black and White people created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights.

• NAACP

• UNICEF

• FBI

• WHO

________________________ - an Atlanta businessman who went from slavery to becoming one of the most successful businessmen in Georgia.

• Alonzo Herndon

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

________________________ - a person who works to bring about political or social changes.

• Political Activist

• Social Worker

• Politician

• Revolutionary

________________________ - a school for people to attend after high school, it’s similar to a college but doesn’t take as long because students focus on a certain career and only take hands-on training courses for their future job.

• Technical School

• Community College

• University

• Vocational Institute

________________________ - buildings (shops, homes, etc.)

• Real Estate

• Automobiles

• Electronics

• Furniture

________________________ - a group organized to oppose racial segregation and disenfranchisement who demanded equal rights immediately, not over time.

• The Talented Tenth

• The Freedom Riders

• The Black Panthers

• The Civil Rights Movement

________________________ - a successful insurance company started by Alonzo Herndon.

• Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company

• New York Life Insurance

• State Farm Insurance

• Liberty Mutual Insurance