Key Civil Rights Individuals Versión en línea The task is to match quotes and actions to the specific individual. Each individual has at least one quote and at least one action. por Paige Barto 1 Martin Luther King Jr. 2 Rosa Parks 3 Asa Philip Randolph 4 Bayard Rustin 5 W. E. B. Du Bois 6 Dorothy Height 7 Amelia Boynton 8 Daisy Bates 9 Malcolm X "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." encouraged tactics of nonviolent protests and civil disobedience famous "I have a dream" speech "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." known as "mother of freedom movement" when she refused to give up her seat on a bus led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (First African American Labor Union) "Freedom is never given, it is won." advocated for Fair Employment Practice Committee which investigated racial discrimination within employment "We need in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers Openly homosexual leader that organized the March on Washington and was advisor to MLK Jr. wrote "The Souls of Black Folk" Founder of NAACP "To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships." "Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals." awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. brutally beaten in 1965 civil rights march known as "Bloody Sunday" "I was taught to love people, to excuse their hate, and realize that if they get the hate out of them, that they will be able to love." First African american woman to run for congress in Alabama and held black voter registration drives “No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.” personal advocator and supporter of "Little Rock Nine" "I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment." militant ideology that contrasted with Martin Luther King Jr.
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