5 Written Questions

1. the African American defense group that wanted land, bread, housing, justice, and peace. were very violent
2. the motto made by Stokely Carmichael that represented the more powerful position that they wanted in society
3. the founder of the Nation of Islam
4. the letter to religion leaders from Martin Luther King Junior that said change was necessary
5. the commission that was created to investigate the cause of riots

5 Matching Questions

1. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
2. Ralph Abernathy
3. Malcolm X
4. Elijah Muhammad
5. Montgomery bus boycott

1. a the founders of the Black Panthers
2. b the man who lead the Poor People's Campaign March
3. c the third leader of the Nation of Islam who said African American freedom should be brought about by any means necessary, but was assassinated by his own group after his pilgrimage to Mecca
4. d the second leader of the Nation of Islam who emphasized African American Superiority, and encouraged people to change their last name to X
5. e the boycott lead by Martin Luther King Junior in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the party that was created after a state party convention rejected all African American candidates
   1. Letter From Birmingham Jail
   2. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
   3. freedom riders
   4. Freedom Summer
2. the name for the tent city set up on the mall that became a criminal breeding ground
   1. remedy
   2. nationalism
   3. resurrection city
   4. separatism
3. the idea that African Americans needed to create their own nation, and that there was no place for them in society
   1. nationalism
   2. Malcolm X
   3. McComb
   4. separatism
4. the act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin during employment
   1. Carl Stokes
   2. Civil Rights Act of 1954
   3. affirmative action
   4. Voting Rights Act
5. spokesperson for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic Convention
   1. I Have a Dream
   2. Fannie Lou Hamer
   3. Freedom Summer
   4. freedom riders

5 True/False Questions

1. separatism → the idea that African Americans needed to create their own nation, and that there was no place for them in society

   True        False

2. McComb → the first town to promote voters' registrations

   True        False

3. Voting Rights Act → the interracial couple who married in DC and were jailed when they returned to Virginia (a remnant of the Jim Crow laws)

   True        False

4. freedom riders → civil rights activists who rod buses through the south in the early1960s to challenge segregation

   True        False

5. Memphis, Tennessee → where was Martin Luther King Junior assassinated?

   True        False