Chapter 19 Important People
became a folk hero while helping to dig the C&O tunnel at Talcott. John Henry
The first black elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates Christopher H. Payne
born a slave in Virginia and lived and worked in the coal mines and saltworks around Malden. He was educated at Hampton College and established Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Booker T. Washington
became the leader of a group known as the Niagara Movement.. He later founded the NAACP. W. E. B. DuBois
threatened to lead a march on Washington to protest discrimination in hiring practices A. Philip Randolp h
was the NAACP lawyer who argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall
the West Virginia governor when the Supreme Court ordered schools to integrate William C. Marland
refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks
his “I have a dream” speech from the march on Washington is most remembere d Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
led a movement of selective patronage to boycott businesses that would not hire blacks. Leon Sullivan
sent federal troops to protect the “Little Rock nine.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower
sent Congress the strongest civil rights bill in history in John F. Kenned y
President Kennedy was assassinated before the bill was passed, but he secured its passage. Lyndon B. Johnson