Arts and Culture
Continuing Inequality
Name Game
Strategy and Tactics
100
Dr. King described "We Shall Overcome" as the "anthem of the Civil Rights Movement." Freedom songs like "We Shall Overcome" draw their cultural origin from what other songforms?
hymns; spirituals
100
Jim Crow laws still ruled the South in this period. Describe some of the ways in which "separate" was observably not "equal" under the Jim Crow system.
inferior schools / back of bus requirement / inferior accommodations / voting restrictions / unequal enforcement of laws / etc.
100
What did the two 'V's in the Double V campaign stand for?
Victory over fascism abroad; victory over Jim Crow at home.
100
SNCC (allied with the NAACP, CORE, and SCLC through the COFO) was the primary organization behind the 1964 Freedom Summer. What was the primary political campaign goal the Freedom Schools supported?
voting rights / voter registration
200
Besides natural hair, what were some other ways African Americans expressed concepts of Afrocentricity?
wearing clothing of African cultural origin; changing names; celebration of African heritage in holidays (e.g. Kwanzaa); artistic expression (must be specific!)
200
What were some of the social or political challenges that women faced within the Civil Rights movement?
limited to gendered labor (secretarial work; domestic work); tokenism; expected to defer to men on strategic tasks; etc.
200
What do two of these three these initialism stand for? SNCC; CORE; SCLC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
200
What popular nonviolent tactic used by students in Greensboro, North Carolina, eventually led to the creation of SNCC?
sit-ins
300
Name a significant Black figure from popular culture in this period. How did they contribute to an expanding representation of African Americans?
So, so many: James Brown; Sam Cooke; Curtis Mayfield; Charles Mingus; Miles Davis; Sidney Poitier; etc.
300
Even after the end of legal redlining, American cities continue to be extremely racially segregated. What are some contributing factors to this phenomenon?
"white flight"; urban renewal; wealth gap; de facto red lining
300
Malcolm X is the leader most associated with the development of the early Black Power movement. What was the organization he was active in for most of his political carreer?
100 Point Bonus: Name the leader of that organization in this period.
The Nation of Islam
Bonus: Elijah Mohammed
300
What are at least two contextual factors led to the development of the Black Power movement as a new strategy for Black liberation?
discontent at limitations of Civil Rights movement; de facto segregation in northern cities; poverty and unemployment; Black nationalism going back to Garvey; political assassinations of Civil Rights leaders
400
The "Black is beautiful" movement emphasized the legitimacy of natural Black phenotype as beautiful. Name a work of arts or culture that expresses this concept.
Negro es Bello II; "Say it Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)
400
What were some ways the white supremacist power structures resisted desegregation following court decisions and legal advancements?
violence and intimidation / refusal to comply / legal work-arounds / etc.
400
Name the founding member of SNCC who is called the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement" and advocated for "group-centered leadership" in the movement.
Ella Baker
400
The Black Panther Party is best known for two of its organizing tactics: "policing the police" and "survival projects." Provide an example of a Panther survival project.
free breakfast program; people's free health clinics; sickle cell testing; legal aid; etc.
500
What was the major crisis that inspired Charles Mingus to compose "Fables of Faubus" in 1959?
Desegregation of Little Rock Schools; Little Rock Nine
500
Describe the experiment that served as the center of the argument to disprove the equality of separateness in the 1954 court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
The Clark doll experiment asked children to indicate whether a Black or white doll was more... [a bunch of descriptors].
500
Before he was assassinated, Chairman Fred Hampton of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party organized an alliance of ethnically diverse revolutionary organizations (the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots). Name that alliance.
Rainbow Coalition
500
We read about the "six Panther P's." You get 100 points for every P you can name.
(1) Program (2) Protests (3) Projects of Survival (4) Press Work (5) Political Education (6) Plans not Personalities