Homework Check 16.3

Match the following

• African

• After his pilgrimage to Makkah, ____________  concluded that an integrated society was possible.

• Malcolm X

• In the 1950s and 1960s, ____________  trapped many African Americans in inner cities.

• racism

• The "X" in Malcolm X's name stood as a symbol for the family name of his ____________  ancestors who had been enslaved

• poverty

• After Malcom X broke with the ___________  of Islam, he continued to criticize the organization and was eventually killed by some of its members.

• Nation

• Despite the passage of several civil rights laws in the 1950s and 1960s, __________ - prejudice or discrimination toward people because of their race - was still common in American society.

The Kerner Commission blamed the problems of inner cities on

• violence.

• overpopulation.

• poverty.

• racism.

The Chicago Movement was an attempt to call attention to the

• riot during the Democratic National Convention in 1968.

• Kerner Commission's recommendation to create two million inner-city jobs.

• deplorable housing conditions many African American families faced.

• efforts being made to improve African American neighborhoods.

When the Supreme Court ordered school districts to end school segregation "with all deliberate speed," the wording was vague enough that many districts were able to

• appeal the brown v Board of Education ruling.

• plan a protest march outside the Supreme Court building.

• keep their schools segregated for many more years.

• use the "Southern Manifesto" to defy the Supreme Court.

What group called for an end to racial oppression and for control of major institutions in the African American community?

• SNCC

• CORE

• Black Muslims

• Black Panthers