The answers will be provided below; please let me know in the comments section how you did and if you want the next one to be harder or easier. By the way, cheating is encouraged!
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1. Which Black Panther Party leader gave a speech supporting the Women’s Liberation Movement and Gay Rights?
a. H. Rap Brown
b. Fred Hampton
c. Huey P. Newton
d. Afeni Shakur (Tupac’s mother)
2. Name the Civil Rights organization infiltrated by the FBI during their COINTELPRO program
a. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
b. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
c. The Black Panther Party
d. Congress Of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.)
e. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
f. All of the above
3. What leader in the Suffragette Movement was a fierce advocate against lynching?
a. Ida B Wells
b. Sojourner Truth
c. Mary Church Terrell
d. Nannie Helen Burroughs
4. Who did Coretta Scott King meet with while her husband, Martin, was in a Selma jail?
a. Malcolm X
b, Stokely Carmichael
c. Ralph Abernathy
d. John Lewis
5. What NAACP leader, passing for white, went undercover to gather infiltration after the Ocoee Massacre?
a. Thurgood Marshall
b. Walter White
c. Medgar Evers
d. Julian Bond
6. What couple was bombed in their home on Christmas Day because of their work with the NAACP in Florida?
a. Medgar and Myrlie Evers
b. Harry and Henrietta Moore
c. Martin and Coretta King
d. Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz
7. Who led the call for “Black Power” during the Civil Rights era?
a. Malcolm X
b. Stokely Carmichael
c. Huey P. Newton
d. Fred Hampton
8. What organization led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a. The Montgomery Improvement Association
b. The SCLC
c. The NAACP
d. The Black Panther Party
9. What Fisk University student, led sit-ins in Nashville, helped organize the Freedom Riders, and was among the first leaders of the SNCC?
a. Diane Nash
b. John Lewis
c. Marion Berry
d. All of the above
10. What lawyer represented the Groveland Four on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund?
a. Johnnie Cochran
b. Clarence Thomas
c. Thurgood Marshall
d. Maynard Jackson
11. What Atlanta restaurant was the unofficial headquarters of the Civil Rights Movement?
a. Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles
b. Sylvia’s Restaurant
c. Paschal’s Restaurant and Coffee Shop
d. The Busy Bee Cafe
12. What future Congressman received a fractured skull during a non-violent march on Bloody Sunday?
a. John Lewis
b. Julian Bond
c. Edward Brooke
d. Harold Ford, Sr.
13. What Civil Rights leader was targeted by the FBI in blackmail attempts to get him to commit suicide?
a. Malcolm X
b. Martin Luther King, Jr
c. Stokely Carmichael
d. Ralph Abernathy
14. Who is famously pictured as one of those on a Lorraine Motel balcony pointing to where the shot came from that killed Martin Luther King, Jr?
a. Jesse Jackson
b. Thurgood Marshall
c. Walter White
d. Julian Bond
15. What organization provided the first support of the Scottsboro Boys when they were falsely accused of rape?
a. The NAACP
b. The Urban League
c. The SCLC
d. The Communist Party
16. What founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994?
a. Dorothy Height
b. Fannie Lou Hamer
c. Daisy Bates
d. Ella Baker
17. What NAACP leader led protests against Harvard University when they both required first-year students to live on campus while banning Black students from living in student housing?
a. W. E. B. Du Bois
b. Thurgood Marshall
c. Walter White
d. Julian Bond
18. Who organized the Little Rock Nine protests?
a. Daisy Bates
b. Ida B. Wells
c. Dorothy Height
d. Diane Nash
19. What organization began a Free Breakfast Program for children that forced politicians to expand school and government programs?
a. The NAACP
b. The Nation of Islam
c. SNCC
d. The Black Panther Party
20. Who was the first Black person to seek the nomination for President of the United States?
a. Jesse Jackson
b. Shirley Chisholm
c. Al Sharpton
d. Frederick Douglass
Answers:
1. c
2. f
3. a
4. a
5. b
6. b
7. b
8. a
9. d
10. c
11. c
12. a
13. b
14. a
15. d
16. a
17. a
18. a
19. d
20. d.
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This post was previously published on Black History Month 365.
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