Women of the Civil Rights Movement Quiz
1. This woman, a Mississippi sharecropper, was beaten and jailed in 1962 for trying to register to vote. She co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and gave a fiery speech at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
2. This unsung leader of the civil rights movement started her work with the NAACP and then moved to Atlanta to organize Martin Luther King's new organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). She left the SCLC after the Greensboro sit-ins to help black student activists form the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Her words have been memorialized in Sweet Honey In the Rock?s song ?___ Song? (We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest). She died on December 13, 1986, in New York City.
3. Now 94 years old, this leader has served for nearly 45 years as the President of the National Council of Negro Women and remains Chair of its Executive Committee. In 2004, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for her work in promoting AIDS education.
4. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to Congress where she served for 14 years. In 1972, she made history by campaigning for nomination by the Democratic Party for President.
5. She was the first black woman to serve as a federal judge. As an attorney, she worked on many pivotal civil rights cases, including Brown v. Board of Education.
6. She marched with Dr. King in Selma in 1965; was the first African American and first woman secretary of state in Pennsylvania; and she co-founded and led the National Congress of Black Women in 1984. She died in October 2005 at age 78.
7. This civil rights activist is perhaps best as a novelist and poet. In 1993, she recited an original poem at President Clinton?s inauguration.
8. A lawyer and civil rights activist, she is the founder of the Children?s Defense Fund. For almost 40 years, she has provided a strong authoritative voice for those who have been denied the power to speak for themselves.
9. Believing literacy to be the key to social and political power, she trained teachers to work in citizenship schools across the south. As an executive staff member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),she took the SCLC?s voter-registration and teacher-training programs into the deep south and registered thousands of new voters.
10. A Civil Rights activist commitment to world-wide justice has been fueled by traveling and meeting with women throughout the world to gain a global perspective on humanitarian issues. Currently, she chairs the California Women's Agenda (CAWA), a network of 600 organizations dedicated to implementing the plan of action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995.
ANSWER
1.Fannie Lou Hamer
2.Ella Baker
3.Dorothy Height
4.Shirley Chisholm
5.Constance Motley,
6.Dr. C. DeLores Tucker
7.Maya Angelou
8.Marian Wright Edelman
9.Septima Clark
10.Aileen Clarke Hernandez 
02-27-06, 05:26 PM
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