Statistics for Key Figures in the Johnson Era 1963-1968

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Description	Answer	% Correct
Leader of the Vietnamese Independence Fight. Ruled in North Vietnam.	Ho Chi Minh	100%
Brother of JFK and supported Freedom Riders and other Civil Rights Movements.	Bobby Kennedy	75%
French head of state	Charles de Gaulle	75%
US army general during the Vietnam War.	General Westmoreland	75%
Moderate leader of CORE in the 1950s and 60s.	James Farmer	75%
Civil Rights Activist who advocated violent protest and believed in black superiority. Was a member of the Nation of Islam but was assassinated in 1965 when he left these beliefs.	Malcolm X	75%
Peaceful spokesperson of the civil rights movement and key in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington and Selma.	Martin Luther King	75%
US Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson.	Robert McNamara	75%
Founded NOW (National Organisation for Women) and wrote significant book 'The Femenine Mystique'.	Betty Friedan	50%
Commissioner for Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama and strongly opposed Civil Rights	Bull Connor	50%
Johnson's VP	Hubert Humphrey	50%
Popular rock artist who sang National Anthem at Woodstock- criticised for anti-war views.	Jimi Hendrix	50%
South Vietnamese president approved by US, who was disliked by his own people for a lack of religius tolerance and conservatism. Assassinated 1963.	Ngo Dinh Diem	50%
Democrat Mayor of Chicago and opposed the civil rights movement. Used tactics to ensure that MLK's Chicago campaign would fail.	Richard Daley	50%
Radical leader of SNCC and spearheaded its direction into Black Power	Stokely Carmichael	50%
Founded the Black Panthers movement.	Huey Newton	25%
First Black student to enter the University of Mississipi, also known for his March from Tennessee to Mississippi whic other civil rights organisations continued after he was shot.	James Meredith	25%
Illionois senator who wrote a report on the causes of the Watts and other race riots of 1965.	Kerner	25%
Famous Black music artist who began having black representation for artists in media.	Miles Davis	25%
Headed the Peace Corps and helped run areas of the War on Poverty.	Sargent Shriver	25%
Founded 'Femenist' movement and wrote the newsletter 'Voices of Women's liberation'	Atkinson	0%
The first American soldier to die in Vietnam.	Charles Ovnand	0%
Replaced McNamara and encouraged exit from Vietnam.	Clark Clifford	0%
Founded the Nation of Islam	Elijah Muhammed	0%
Civil Rights Activist who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and succeeded to get members to the Democratic Party Convention.	Fannie Lou Hamer	0%
Radical leader of CORE after James Farmer.	Floyd McKissick	0%
Replaced Westmoreland as leader of US military force in Vietnam.	General Creighton Adams	0%
General who defeated the French forces and a general in the Vietnam War on the side of North Vietnam.	General Giap	0%
British Prime Minister	Harold Wilson	0%
One of the volunteers killed on the first day of the Freedom Summer campaign.	James Earl Chney	0%
Led the SCLC in their persuits for economic equality in the north- spearheaded 'Operation Breadbasket'.	Jesse Jackson	0%
Brutal sheriff of Selma who used similar tactics against civil rights protests as Bull Connor, inciting media attention.	Jim Clark	0%
Leader of the Nation of Islam	Louis X	0%
Led the UCBerkley Free Speech Movement	Mario Savio	0%
National Security Advisor fro Kennedy and Johnson	McGeorge Bundy	0%
The president of South Vietnam after Diem's assassination and during the Vietnam War.	Nguyen Van Thieu	0%
Popular American news presenter	Walter Cronkite	0%