Iconic Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement: Multiple Choice

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01Which sociologist, historian, and activist was a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909?
02A key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who later served many terms as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia?
03Which activist is famous for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott after refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger?
04Which World War II veteran and Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP was assassinated in his driveway in 1963, sparking national outrage?
05Who delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the 1963 March on Washington?
06Who was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and a key advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. on the principles of nonviolent resistance?
07Who served as the Executive Secretary of the NAACP from 1955 to 1977, leading the organization through the height of the Civil Rights Movement?
08A prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement, who was a leading minister and national spokesman for the Nation of Islam before his assassination in 1965?
09Along with Bobby Seale, who co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California, in 1966?
10Who served as the lead attorney for the NAACP in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
11Known as the "Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement," which activist worked behind the scenes for decades, helping to organize the SCLC and mentoring leaders of SNCC?
12Which sharecropper-turned-activist was instrumental in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and famously declared, "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired"?