Changes in the Civil Rights Movement — Quiz

Question 1

Which event signaled a directional change for the SNCC?

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the rise of Stokely Carmichael to leader of the SNCC in 1966

Question 2

A leader who believed that Islam could unify people of different races was

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Malcolm X.

Question 3

Which ideas did members of the Nation of Islam support?

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black nationalism

Question 4

Which statement best illustrates a philosophical change during the civil rights movement of the 1960s?

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The Black Power movement wanted African Americans to help themselves.

Question 5

Malcolm X was assassinated by members of the

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Nation of Islam.

Question 6

How did the Black Power movement change the civil rights movement?

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It discouraged alliances with supportive and sympathetic whites.

Question 7

Malcolm X’s legacy in the civil rights movement includes the idea that African Americans

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could control their situation.

Question 8

When he suggested that change should be brought about “by any means necessary,” Malcolm X was

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promoting violence to achieve civil rights goals.

Question 9

Which leader of the SNCC promoted Black Power?

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Stokely Carmichael

Question 10

After Huey Newton went to jail in 1967, the Black Panther Party

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promoted the use of violence as an option.

Changes in the Civil Rights Movement — Quiz Answers