Who's Who in US History - STAAR EOC Review

*Leader of the civil rights movement beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott

*Believed in nonviolent civil disobedience

*Started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) civil rights group

*Famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech and "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

• Malcolm X

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Stokely Carmichael

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

*Responsible for taking Hawaii for the US

*Owned sugar plantations

*Became the president of Hawaii after overthrowing Queen Liliuokalani

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

• William Seward

• Henry Cabot Lodge

• Sanford Dole

*First African American woman to be elected to Congress

• Betty Friedan

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Shirley Chisholm

• Hillary Clinton

*Conservative woman who led the Stop-ERA movement

*Helped prevent the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

• Betty Friedan

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Shirley Chisholm

• Hillary Clinton

*Sat on a whites' only train car in 1892 to challenge segregation in court

*The result was that segregation was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1896

• Sanford Dole

• Rosa Parks

• Homer Plessy

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

*Nixon's vice president who became president after Nixon resigned in 1974

*After he became president, he pardoned Nixon for the Watergate scandal

*As a result, he lost re-election in 1976

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter

• George H.W. Bush

• William (Bill) Clinton

*Racist segregationist governor of Alabama

*Supported the use of violence (water hoses, dogs, etc) against Dr. King and other peaceful protesters

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Orval Faubus

• George Wallace

• Thurgood Marshall

*President after John F. Kennedy was assassinated

*Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

*His "Great Society" program began the system of welfare in America

*Was responsible for sending troops to Vietnam after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

*President at the end of World War II and during most of the Korean War

*Made the decision to use the atomic bombs against Japan

*Desegregated the armed forces with Executive Order 9981

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

*Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and was arrested

*This marked the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the national civil rights movement

• Harriet Tubman

• Ida B. Wells

• Rosa Parks

• Shirley Chisholm