#19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $300: 1932:
"Rosa McCauley! Any activism today?"
"I just got married"
"Do I know him?"
"His last name is" this Parks |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism (Alice) Walker |
#8582, aired 2022-02-22 | MARK'S "-ISM" $800: "Do what you can", says Mark Ruffalo on this -ism, working for a cause as opposed to sitting back activism |
#14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $1200: He came to the forefront of social activism during the 2016 NFL season Colin Kaepernick |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | DID I MISS ANYTHING? $800: For union activism, George Loveless was sent from his English village to this distant place in 1834, but in 1837 was able to return Australia |
#8240, aired 2020-09-18 | "ISM"s $1000: In New York City the Gray Panthers organization's mission statement is "activism and advocacy against" this ageism |
#8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $1600: Civil rights activism often includes VRDs, these "Drives" to help people participate in our democracy voter registration |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $400: Amnesty International wants more communities to accept refugees, asking for a longer table, not a taller this structure a wall |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $800: Black Lives Matter came to national prominence as a hashtag after tragic events in this suburb of St. Louis in 2014 Ferguson |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $1200: Started in Victoria, British Columbia in 1987, the Raging "these", older relatives, fight for social and economic justice Grannies |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $1600: In 2019 protests here got a bill shelved that would have allowed extradition to Mainland China Hong Kong |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $2000: This political movement fighting income inequality is named for emergency items required in cars by French law yellow vests |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | THE ACCESSORIZED TEACHER $1000: Say you love learning with a pair of these showing books; George H.W. Bush wore some to honor his wife's literacy activism socks |
#7671, aired 2018-01-08 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC $1600: Nonviolent activism for political change, it's AKA civil disobedience passive resistance |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | U.S. HERSTORY $400: She joined hubby MLK Jr. in civil rights activism, taking part in the Montgomery bus boycott Coretta Scott King |
#7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence" Malcolm X |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | THE BRADY BUNCH $800: She died in April 2015 after 30 years of gun control activism Sarah Brady |
#6797, aired 2014-03-18 | TED TALKS $200: Activism but no guitar in the TED Talk by this man
"Might we answer that clarion call with science, with reason, with facts?" Bono |
#6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BOOKS THAT CHANGED AMERICA $1600: Jane Addams recounted her community activism in "Twenty Years at" this location Hull House |
#5867, aired 2010-03-02 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from near a metal gateway.) I'm on the campus of this university in the Bay Area, where 1960s student activism sparked the Free Speech Movement Berkeley |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $800: In 1893 the anti-mangling activism of Lorenzo Coffin got Congress to mandate the air type of these on railroad cars brakes |
#5059, aired 2006-09-14 | IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND $1200: Her biography includes losing half a leg in an accident; anti-landmine activism; & marrying a musician Heather Mills McCartney |
#4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, AL.) Activist Bayard Rustin said when the Supreme Court announced the decision in this case, things began to move into a new era of activism & confrontation Brown v. Board of Education |
#4877, aired 2005-11-22 | AMERICAN WOMAN $1000: The former editor & Playboy bunny seen here, she spent time in India & learned about nonviolent activism (Gloria) Steinem |
#4745, aired 2005-04-01 | -ISMs $200: It can refer to activism for better products, or to a passion for purchasing consumerism |
#3996, aired 2002-01-07 | ACTIVISM $200: In 2001 students held a sit-in to demand this type of "wage" for Harvard service workers a living wage |
#3996, aired 2002-01-07 | ACTIVISM $400: Court decisions that seek to make laws rather than interpret them are called this type of "activism" judicial activism |
#3996, aired 2002-01-07 | ACTIVISM $600: One day a year Oxfam America asks people in wealthy countries to do this "for a world harvest" fast |
#3996, aired 2002-01-07 | ACTIVISM $800: You could call Julia Butterfly Hill, seen here,
a tree-hugger; she spent two years in one of these California trees a redwood |
#3996, aired 2002-01-07 | ACTIVISM $1000: If you live in Brea, California, dislike big government & adore elephants, think of joining the Orange County "Young" these Republicans |