African American Civil Rights - Who Am I? - Flashcards in A Level and IB History

I proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863

Abraham Lincoln

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I had no political allies, congress tried to impeach me and I was actually pro slavery

Andrew Johnson

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We led the Radical Republicans

Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner

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I was an African American senator between 1875-1881 and gained some support for the nomination of vice president

Blanche K. Bruce

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I actively participated in the anti-slavery movement, set up my own anti-slavery newspaper and refused to run the Freedman's Bureau

Fredrick Douglas

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In my second term of office, political scandal prevented me from helping the civil rights movement as much as I wanted to

Useless S. Grant

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The compromise of 1877 between us brought reconstruction to an end, so denying the optimism that existed after the end of slavery

Rutherford & Hayes

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I sued a railway company at the end of the 19th century but all it did was allow the Supreme Court to legalise segregation

Homer Plessy

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I dismissed all black advisors in the Federal Government

Woodrow Wilson

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I challenged the myth that **** was the major cause of lynching

Ida D. Wells

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I established an Institution at Tuskegee

Booker T. Washington

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I helped found the Niagara movement as well as the NAACP

W.E.B. Du Bois

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I was lynched in Springfield for being married to a white woman for 32 years. It was also rumoured that I made shoes for the president

William Donnegan

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Collectively we were leading musicians, authors, artists and singers who wrote and sang about our experiences

Harlem Renaissance

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I was the first African American to be elected to congress since 1900. I was also criticised for not supporting the New Deal

Oscar De Priest

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My husband couldn't get congress to pass an anti-lynching bill but, as first lady, I frequently supported black causes

Eleanor roosevelt

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I was the first A/A to win an Oscar

Hattie McDaniel

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I challenged the notion of racial superiority in 1936

Jesse Owens

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I threatened to march on Washington 23 years before MLK, although, I was with him in 1963

A. Phillip Randolph

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I established CORE in 1942

James Farmer

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I organised the 'don't buy where you can't work' campaign

Adam Clayton Powell

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As a black lawyer I won nearly all cases that the NAACP asked me to pursue for them. In 1967 I was appointed the first black justice of the Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall

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Eisenhower said of me that it was "the biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made" when speaking about my appointment to the Supreme Court

Earl Warren

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I was murdered in 1955 for allegedly wolf whistling at a white woman whilst I visited Mississippi

Emmett Till

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I used state troops to bar 9 black children from entering Little Rock

Orval Faubus

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I disliked MLK's leadership style and helped set up the SNCC

Ella Baker

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We led the black panthers with Huey Newton

Bobby Seale

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My surname was Little but I didn't like it so I changed it

Malcolm X

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I appointed WIlliam T Coleman to my cabinet

Ford

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I appointed 37 black federal judges

Carter

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My policy of affirmative action was loved or hated

Nixon

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My views on civil rights were historically negative, viewed as colour blind and my policies were seen as hitting the black community hard (especially when I cut welfare payments))

Ronald Reagan

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I appointed black lawyer Clarence Thomas to the S.C which was a particular cunning move

George Bush Senior

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I started the Rainbow coalition but really failed to make a major impact on the civil rights movement despite my promise as an SCLC official

Jesse Jackson

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