Chapter 19 Quiz

A  Barbara Jordan

B  Shirley Chisholm

C  Angela Davis

D  Sonia Sanchez

A  civil rights organization most likely to usurp the authority of the NAACP

B  most dangerous criminal cell

C  most secretive militant organization

D  most dangerous extremist organization

A  were kicked off the US Olympic team

B  were asked to join the Black Panthers

C  became national heroes

D  were invited to the White House to meet Lyndon Johnson

A  Huey Newton

B  John Lewis

C  Stokely Carmichael

D  H. Rap Brown

A  Congress of Racial Equality

B  National Negro Congress

C  Universal Negro Improvement Association

D  Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

A  Poor People’s Campaign

B  Memphis Sanitation Workers strike

C  COINTELPRO

D  Congress of Racial Equality

A  Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown

B  Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall

C  Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton

D  Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver

A  H. Rap Brown

B  Frantz Fanon

C  Stokely Carmichael

D  Eldridge Cleaver

A  African Americans should oppose any sort of state-sponsored violence

B  the war consumed funds that might otherwise be used to fight Communism elsewhere

C  the war in Vietnam was a civil war and not about communist subversion

D  black casualties in the war were disproportionately high and contrasted with the strategy of nonviolence by civil rights activists

A  demanded a complete break with mainstream American society

B  refused to break completely with the old-line civil rights movement

C  rejected the new “black studies” academic model as “too little, too late”

D  broke with black leftist politics in favor of asserting distinct African or African American values

A  and drew attention to national liberation struggles around the world

B  but alienated many conservative civil rights activists

C  but also inadvertently strengthened white support for police suppression

D  and led to the formation of a new third party in American politics