1. Chapter 19 Important People

2. became a folk hero while helping to dig the C&O tunnel at Talcott. John Henry

3. The first black elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates Christopher H. Payne

4. 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

5. became the leader of a group known as the Niagara Movement.. He later founded the NAACP. W. E. B. DuBois

6. threatened to lead a march on Washington to protest discrimination in hiring practices A. Philip Randolp h

7. was the NAACP lawyer who argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall

8. the West Virginia governor when the Supreme Court ordered schools to integrate William C. Marland

9. refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks

10. his “I have a dream” speech from the march on Washington is most remembere d Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. led a movement of selective patronage to boycott businesses that would not hire blacks. Leon Sullivan

12. sent federal troops to protect the “Little Rock nine.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower

13. sent Congress the strongest civil rights bill in history in 1963. John F. Kenned y

14. President Kennedy was assassinated before the bill was passed, but he secured its passage. Lyndon B. Johnson