Civil Rights, Harlem Renaissance, and The Black Power Movement

Civil Rights, Harlem Renaissance, and The Black Power Movement

By Kevin Greene

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gboEyrj02g&t=122s

Multiple Choice

In what way were the views of Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey similar?

• Both believed African Americans should not demand for social equality.

• Both opposed integration and supported black pride and nationalism.

• Both believed African Americans should focus on achieving vocational skills.

• Both believed African Americans should be self-reliant and rely on themselves

Multiple Choice

Click on the table and study it. It provides information about the African-American population in several cities after the Civil War. Which condition in society was primarily responsible for the change in urban population?

• absence of agricultural employment in Southern communities

• lack of political representation in Southern communities

• absence of prejudice and discrimination in Northern cities

• prevalence of racial inequality in the South

Multiple Choice

What did African American writers, artists, and musicians hope to achieve with the Harlem Renaissance?

• to display their abilities as consciences workers in the workplace

• to show the pursuit of material success can lead to tragedy

• to demonstrate African Americans could produce great works of literature and art

• to reveal conditions for African Americans in the South were almost as bad as the North

Multiple Choice

The excerpt below is from the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

“Laws permitting, or even requiring, the separation of the races do not place a badge of inferiority upon one group over another. Thus, it is not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Which practice did this Supreme Court ruling uphold?

• The job training for freedmen

• The push for free schooling for all races

• The racial segregation in public places

• The participation of African Americans in politics

Multiple Choice

Click on the cartoon by Thomas Nast and study it. What was the main message of this cartoon?

• Opponents of Civil Rights were using violence to intimidate African Americans

• Different groups of Southerners were cooperating to help African Americans

• The Ku Klux Klan and other groups were assisting Freedmen

• The 14th Amendment protected the rights of Southern blacks from the KKK

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82rgdbM9G4

Multiple Choice

…You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may want to ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all..”…

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963

Which type of action against unjust laws is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supporting inn this passage?

• militant resistance

• judicial activism

• civil disobedience

• affirmative aciton

Multiple Choice

“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free…. I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.”

Based on this statement, how did Fannie Lou Hamer influence the Civil Rights movement?

• by organizing Freedom Rides across Mississippi

• by encouraging African Americans to obtain a concealed weapons permit

• by encouraging African Americans to join the Black Armed Guard

• by organizing Freedom Summer to support African American political involvement

Multiple Choice

As a result of the March on Washington, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, which said

• Segregation was effectively ended in the United States

• All companies and jobs in the United States had to end racial discrimination

• All military services could no longer discriminate based on race

• No federal company or agency could deny a job based on race or religion

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZlnZCpXfpQ

Multiple Choice

The Black Panther Party patrolled black neighborhoods to protect residents from police violence, carried guns, called for the arming of African Americans, and created a ten-point program of demands. Based on the above list, which phrase BEST explains how this organization was seeking to influence change?

• by encouraging African Americans to separate from white society

• by advocating the use of violence to fight racism, when it was necessary

• by calling for African Americans to unite, embrace their heritage, and build a sense of community

• by encouraging African Americans to register to vote

Multiple Choice

Which organizations opposed the use of violence in the struggle for African American civil rights?

• NAACP, CORE, SCLC

• CORE, KKK, Black Panthers

• Black Panthers, SCLC, CORE

• Nation of Islam, SNCC, SCLC

Multiple Choice

Which group of leaders discouraged cooperation with embers of other racial groups in the struggle to improve conditions for African Americans?

• Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Marcus Garvey

• A. Phillip Randolph, James Farmer, Fannie Lou Hamer

• Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Dr. Ralph Abernathy