History 1530 - History of African Americans Since 1877 » Summer 2020 » Chapter 19 Quiz

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Question #1
H. Rap Brown’s black power pronouncements expressed the anger felt by many African Americans __________.
A.   but alienated many conservative civil rights activists
B.   and drew attention to national liberation struggles around the world
C.   and led to the formation of a new third party in American politics
D.   but also inadvertently strengthened white support for police suppression
Question #2
Some proponents of black cultural nationalism __________.
A.   refused to break completely with the old-line civil rights movement
B.   rejected the new “black studies” academic model as “too little, too late”
C.   demanded a complete break with mainstream American society
D.   broke with black leftist politics in favor of asserting distinct African or African American values
Question #3
When Martin Luther King, Jr., publicly came out against the Vietnam War in 1967, he contended that __________.
A.   African Americans should oppose any sort of state-sponsored violence
B.   the war in Vietnam was a civil war and not about communist subversion
C.   the war consumed funds that might otherwise be used to fight Communism elsewhere
D.   black casualties in the war were disproportionately high and contrasted with the strategy of nonviolence by civil rights activists
Question #4
The author of the popular book, The Wretched of the Earth, who argued that violence is a “psychologically healthy and tactically sound method for the oppressed,” was __________.
A.   H. Rap Brown
B.   Frantz Fanon
C.   Stokely Carmichael
D.   Eldridge Cleaver
Question #5
The authors of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, who argued that African Americans were a colonized people, were __________.
A.   Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown
B.   Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver
C.   Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall
D.   Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton
Question #6
In the fall of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., and SCLC changed direction and announced the __________, an effort that they hoped would dramatize economic issues.
A.   Congress of Racial Equality
B.   Poor People’s Campaign
C.   COINTELPRO
D.   Memphis Sanitation Workers strike
Question #7
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton formed the __________ in October 1966 to offer a more militant voice to Oakland’s African American community.
A.   National Negro Congress
B.   Universal Negro Improvement Association
C.   Congress of Racial Equality
D.   Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Question #8
The SNCC militant who was invited to be the Black Panther Party’s prime minister was __________.
A.   H. Rap Brown
B.   Huey Newton
C.   Stokely Carmichael
D.   John Lewis
Question #9
When Tommie Smith and John Carlos staged an impromptu demonstration after winning their Olympic events in 1968, they __________.
A.   were kicked off the US Olympic team
B.   were invited to the White House to meet Lyndon Johnson
C.   became national heroes
D.   were asked to join the Black Panthers
Question #10
In July 1970, the FBI named the Black Panthers as the nation’s __________.
A.   most secretive militant organization
B.   most dangerous extremist organization
C.   most dangerous criminal cell
D.   civil rights organization most likely to usurp the authority of the NAACP
Question #11
The New York congresswoman who became the first black woman to run for president was
A.   Angela Davis
B.   Barbara Jordan
C.   Shirley Chisholm
D.   Sonia Sanchez

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