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This civil rights movement icon’s long and extensive history of activism has been historically neglected, and their contribution to the movement has been reduced to one singular event.
Who is Rosa Parks
What does this acronym stand for SNCC
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee?
MLK made his famous "I have a dream speech" during this event.
What is the March on Washington?
What year was UMass Afro-Am dept established?
What is 1970?
Before the emergence of the civil rights movement the Black working class harbored this attitude about homosexuality
What is tolerance/acceptance?
This leaders’ politics isn’t commonly associated with connecting the domestic plight of Black Americans to the third world.
Who is MLK?
This org inspired the 1975 creation of the School Breakfast Program across the country.
Who is the Black Panther Party?
The traditional Civil Rights Movement timeline starts and ends in what years?
What is 1954 & 1965?
This federal agency’s COINTELPRO program targeted Hampton, planting an informant in his inner circle.
What was the FBI?
In his article "They Finally Found Out that We Really Are Men" Simon Wendt argues that some civil rights orgs struggled to win Black men over to their use of non-violence due to
What was the linking of non-violent direct action to connotations of effeminate submissiveness?
This 14-year old was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till
This group took over the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem and turned it into a social service sanctuary for the poor.
Who are the Young Lords
Black studies programs were created by the organizing efforts of students as well as...?
What is community?
This 1955-56 protest, sparked by Rosa Parks' arrest, ended when the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Lisa Levenstein's "Housing, Not a Home" challenges traditional narratives of the civil rights movement by
What is by focusing on how low-income Black women struggled for housing and dignity.
This 1965 movement saw Black women march against welfare discrimination.
What was the Welfare Rights Movement (National Welfare Rights Organization)?
Richard Rothstein argues that this form of segregation is just as prevalent in northern and urban areas as it was in the south.
What is de jure segregation.
This country used U.S. racial segregation/oppression as a propaganda tool that challenged and undermined America's claims of being a country of freedom and democracy.
What is the USSR/Soviet Union?
This union went on a city wide strike in protest of the firing of 19 of their members by a community school board.
Who were the United Federation of Teachers/UFT?
These movements were inspired by the Black Panthers.
What is the Chicano Movement or American Indian Movement?
Malcolm X's famous autobiography ignores or downplays the significant contribution of these people in shaping his politics.
Who are Black Women?