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Core 5 Civil Rights
African American Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do the letters NAACP stand for? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Which group's objective was the "ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination"? | NAACP |
| How was the founders of the NAACP different than other civil rights groups? | They were white. |
| Which strong African American leader became one of the voices of the NAACP by becoming an executive in the organization as director of publications and research for "The Crisis"? | W.E.B. DuBois |
| What could be considered the NAACP's landmark case during the Civil Rights Movement? | Brown v. Board of Education |
| What's the name of the Supreme Court case that legalized segregation? | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Who was lead council on the Civil Rights Movement cases to desegregate schools? | Thurgood Marshall |
| What does the acronym SCLC stand for? | Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| What highly publicized act of civil disobedience preempted the creation of the SCLC? | the Montgomery Bus Boycotts |
| Who was a well known Civil Rights Movement leader that became one of the founders of SCLC? | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Whose purpose was to "affirm the philosophical or religious ideal of nonviolence" as their purpose, the presupposition of their faith and the manner of their actions" | SCLC |
| What does CORE stand for? | Congress of Racial Equality |
| Which Civil Rights Organization was founded on the campus of the University of Chicago by a group of students? | CORE |
| What international civil rights organization does CORE work with? | United Nations |
| What political achievement did CORE become the first "Black Organization in US History to do? | draft a bill that was introduced into Congress (the Community Self-Determination Bill) |
| What was the name of the largest Black revolutionary organization that has ever existed? | The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense |
| What was the name of the FBI director that considered the Black Panthers as the "number one threat to the internal security of the United States"? | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Which Civil Rights Organization wanted "the power to determine the destiny of our Black community"? | The Black Panthers |
| What religious group was the Black Panther Party closely associated with for a while? | the Nation of Islam |
| Who were the 2 most well known leaders of the Black Panther Party? | Huey Newton and Stokely Carmichael |
| What was the term used to describe the belief of the Black Panthers that one should reject the integrationist approach and the belief in separation from "whites"? | cultural nationalism |
| Despite being a threat to the government, what was the Black Panther Party known for? | community programs |
| What does SNCC stand for? | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| According to SNCC, what is the "central motif | love |
| What current US senator was a member of the ground roots SNCC organization? | John Lewis |
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