Changes in the Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

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

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promoted the use of violence as an option.

Question 2

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and

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Bobby Seale.

Question 3

The Black Panther Party believed that

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African Americans were responsible for solving their own problems.

Question 4

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

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Malcolm X parted ways with the Nation of Islam.

Question 5

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

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It discouraged alliances with supportive and sympathetic whites.

Question 6

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 7

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

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Malcolm X.

Question 8

Which ideas did members of the Nation of Islam support?

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black nationalism

Question 9

Which leader of the SNCC promoted Black Power?

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Stokely Carmichael

Question 10

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

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could control their situation.

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