Famous American Activists

Name these famous activists from American history.

Many of these figures fit into multiple movements, so I simply placed them in the movement for which they are best known for

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Movement	Clue	Answer
Abolition	Former slave and orator who learned to read from his master's wife	Frederick Douglass
Abolition	Known as a "Moses" for her repeated expeditions to the South to free slaves	Harriet Tubman
Abolition	Boston-based abolitionist who wrote the newspaper "The Liberator"	William Lloyd Garrison
Mental Health	Woman who established asylums and campaigned for prison reform	Dorothea Dix
Suffrage	Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Suffrage	Arrested for voting in New York and wrote the original female suffrage amendment	Susan B. Anthony
Labor	Founder and longtime President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)	Samuel Gompers
Settlement	Founder of the Hull House, a settlement home for immigrants	Jane Addams
Labor	Ran for President several times as the Socialist Party candidate	Eugene V. Debs
Civil Rights	Harvard-educated author of "The Souls of Black Folk" and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)	W. E. B. Dubois
Civil Rights	Muckraking journalist who reported on lynchings and co-founder of the NAACP	Ida B. Wells
Birth Control	Founded Planned Parenthood and opened birth control clinics	Margaret Sanger
Civil Rights	Early black nationalist who led the Back-to-Africa movement	Marcus Garvey
Civil Rights	Led the March on Washington and gave "I Have a Dream" speech	Martin Luther King
Civil Rights	Refused to give up bus seat, leading to Montgomery bus boycott	Rosa Parks
Civil Rights	Muslim activist who gave "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech	Malcolm X
Civil Rights	Began as major Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader and later supported Black Panther Party	Stokely Carmichael
Labor	Mexican-American who led the Delano Grape Strike and co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) union	Cesar Chavez
Labor	Woman who worked with the above and co-founded the UFW union	Dolores Huerta
Feminism	Wrote "The Feminine Mystique" and co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW)	Betty Friedan
LGBT Rights	San Francisco supervisor and one of the first openly gay officials in US history	Harvey Milk
Civil Rights	Baptist minister who founded the National Rainbow Coalition and ran for President in 1984 and 1988	Jesse Jackson

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Level 37

Jul 29, 2019

I should be horse whipped for not remembering Carmichael and Chavez's names.

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