Challenges and Changes

What is de facto segregation?

• Segregation by law

• Segregation by custom or practice

• A program aimed at hiring or including minorities

• A movement that stressed black pride

Who was Malcolm X?

• Leader of Black Power movement

• African-American civil rights leader

• Head of the Nation of Islam

• African-American group founded to combat police brutality

What was the main goal of the Black Power movement?

• To ban discrimination in housing

• To combat police brutality

• To stress black pride

• To report on race relations in America

What does the Civil Rights Act of 1968 aim to ban?

• Discrimination in hiring practices

• Segregation by custom

• Discrimination in housing

• Police brutality

What is the purpose of affirmative action?

• To combat police brutality

• To ban discrimination in housing

• To stress black pride

• To hire or include minorities in various sectors

What were two main problems that African Americans in the North faced during the mid-1960s?

• Poor schools and high unemployment

• Police brutality and discrimination in housing

• Segregation by law and lack of civil rights leaders

• Inequality in hiring practices and lack of political representation

What did new African-American leaders call for during the 1960s?

• Peaceful negotiations

• More aggressive tactics in fighting racism

• Complete separation from other races

• Passive resistance

Who was the head of the Nation of Islam during the 1960s?

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Stokely Carmichael

• Malcolm X

• Robert Kennedy

What was the main idea introduced by Stokely Carmichael?

• Nonviolent protest

• Black Power

• Civil disobedience

• Racial integration

Which political party was formed by some African Americans in 1966?

• The Civil Rights Party

• The Freedom Party

• The Black Panthers

• The Equality Party