WorksheetsChapter 25, Lesson 3 Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 36mins
After Malcolm X broke with the Nation of ___________, he continued to criticize the organization and was eventually killed by some of its members.
Christianity
Islam
Buddism
KKK
What is racism?
prejudice or discrimination toward people because of their race
prejudice or discrimination toward people because of their religion
the celebration of race
the celebration of the South
Who concluded that an integrated society was possible after he made his pilgrimage in 1964?
MLK
LBJ
JFK
Malcolm X
The "X" in Malcolm X's name stood as a symbol for what?
His African ancestors who were enslaved
His brother who was shot by a cop
His dad who was lynched
All of his supporters
What trapped many African Americans in the inner city during the 50's and 60's?
Police brutality
Laws
Poverty
Overpopulation
The Kerner Commission blamed the problems of inner cities on what?
overpopulation
poverty
racism
violence
The Chicago Movement was an attempt to call attention to what?
deplorable housing conditions many African American families faced
efforts being made to improve African American neighborhoods
Kerner Commission's recommendation to create 2 million inner city jobs
riot during the Democratic National Convention in 1968
What group called for an end to racial oppression and for control of major institutions in the African American community?
Black Muslims
Black Panthers
CORE
SNCC
Even though Malcolm X became the symbol of the black power movement that was sweeping the nation by the early 1960's, it was ____________ who first coined the phrase and described what it meant?
Bobby Seale
Stokely Carmichael
Eldridge Cleaver
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was assassinated by ___________?
Police officers who were trying to arrest him for inciting a riot
Followers of Martin Luther King, Jr., who believed that Malcolm's message was anti-Christian and violent
Members in the Nation of Islam who followed Elijah Muhammad
Members of the Black Panther's who saw Malcolm as too much of a threat against their organization.
What happened to the Civil Rights Movement after MLK's assassination?
The movement was more energized than what it was with King alive.
Many African Americans joined the Black Power Movement and that movement became the new voice of the Civil Rights Movement in this country.
The Civil Rights Movement began to fragment after King's death.
The oppression against black people ended in this country.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in the city of __________ on April 4, 1968.
Memphis
Nashville
Chattanooga
Knoxville
