NAME: ________________________

Guided Notes:
Important Figures in the Civil Rights Movement

TEAM OPPOSITION
LIST 3 ADJECTIVES THAT RECALL A QUOTE THAT
DESCRIBE WALLACE: STRUCK YOU AS
INTERESTING FROM
 _________________ WALLACE’S SPEECH.

 _________________

GEORGE WALLACE  _________________

IDENTIFY AND DEFINE WHAT INTERESTING

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS RECORD DOES
THAT THURMOND THURMOND HOLD?
OPPOSED:

1957:

1964:
STROM THURMOND
1965:

WHICH STATE WAS RICHARD RUSSELL CO-

RICHARD RUSSELL THE AUTHORED A BOOK
GOVERNER OF? WITH
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________________________ THIS BOOKED IS TITLED

RICHARD RUSSELL ________________________

 TEAM SUPPORT
MLK WAS MOST
INSPIRED BY
IDENTIFY WHICH
_____________________, AWARD MLK WON IN
1964.
WHO INSPIRED HIM TO
ADAPT A FORM OF ________________________

___________________ AFTER IDENTIFYING

THE AWARD, DRAW A
WHICH WAS SUCCESFUL PICTURE OF THE AWARD
IN DRAWING ATTENTION BELOW:
DR. MARTIN AND CHANGE TOWARDS
LUTHER KING JR. THE PROBLEMS THAT
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
WERE TRYING TO
HIGHLIGHT.

DRAW A VENN DIAGRAM

AND COMPARE AND
MALCOLM WAS NOT CONSTRAST MLK AND
ONLY A MUSLIM MALCOLM X BELOW:
MINISTER, BUT WAS
ALSO A MEMBER OF

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MALCOLM X

IDENTIFY ONE THING

NOT ONLY WAS EVERS A THAT MEDGAR EVERS,
WORLD WAR II MARTIN LUTHER KING,
VETERAN, BUT HE WAS AND MALCOLM X HAVE
ALSO THE FIRST IN COMMON BELOW.
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FOR THE NAACP.

MEDGAR EVERS
 STATE THE REASON
WHY ROSA PARKS WAS WHAT BOYCOTT WAS
ARRESTED. SHE AN IMPORTANT
MEMBER OF?

ROSA PARKS

OTHER IMPORTANT FIGURES

WHAT COUNCIL WAS SHE WAS AN ACTIVIST
HEIGHT THE PRESIDENT FOR WHICH TWO CIVIL
OF FOR OVER 40 YEARS? RIGHTS ISSUES?

a. African-American
b. Native American
c. Latino
d. Women’s
DOROTHY HEIGHT

RECALL SOMETHING
WHAT WAS JAMES INTERESTING THAT YOU
BALDWIN’S LEARNED ABOUT JAMES
OCCUPATION? BALDWIN. STATE YOUR
ASNWER BELOW.

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JAMES BALDWIN
 IDENTIFY THE REASON CRITICIZE THE COURT’S
WHY EMMETT TILL WAS VERDICT GIVEN TO
KILLED. EMMETT TILL’S
MURDERERS BELOW.

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EMMETT TILL