Civil Rights and Women's Rights Leaders

Vocabulary flashcards covering prominent figures in American civil rights, abolitionism, and women's rights movements.

Lucretia Mott

Reformer who, with Elizabeth Lady Stanton, campaigned for women's rights.

Emmett Till

14 year-old boy who was abducted, tortured and killed for "talking fresh to a white woman." His murder, and the image of his corpse, some believe was a pivotal moment in starting the Civil Rights Movement.

W. E. B. DuBois

African American writer, teacher, sociologist, and activist whose work transformed the way that the lives of Black citizens were seen in American society. An early champion of using data to solve social issues, author of The Souls of Black Folk, and leader of the early NAACP.

Betty Friedan

Author of The Feminine Mystique.

Kamala Harris

First woman U.S. Vice President.

Sandra Day O'Connor

First woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Malcolm X

Nation of Islam member and Black Nationalist leader whose view was more militant and potentially violent as compared to his contemporaries; his assassination caused rioting in numerous U.S. cities.

Frederick Douglass

A formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker, and a leader in the abolitionist movement. Penned five autobiographies, including his 1845 autobiography describing his time as an enslaved worker in Maryland, and pushed for equality after the Emancipation Act of 1862 until his death in 1895.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Baptist minister and pivotal leader of the Civil Rights Movement starting in the mid-1950s who advocated for peaceful, yet active resistance; his assassination caused rioting in numerous U.S. cities.

Sojourner Truth

Former slave and orator who delivered the "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in Akron, Ohio, helped enslaved people escape to freedom, organized supplies for Union troops, worked with the Freedmen's Bureau, lobbied against streetcar segregation in Washington, DC, and petitioned Congress to provide land to former slaves.

Booker T. Washington

Leading African American intellectual born into slavery who founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881 and the National Negro Business League two decades later, advised Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, and was remembered as the most influential African American speaker of his time.

Susan B. Anthony

Person who proposed a women's suffrage amendment to the Constitution.

Rosa Parks

Often referred to as "The First Lady of Civil Rights." Her arrest in Montgomery, Alabama started a movement to strike down discriminatory policies on public busses, eventually leading to challenges against all Jim Crow era policies.