Week8 reader report Instructions: After you have completed all readings on The Civil Rights Movement for week eight, answer the following question(s)/ prompt(s) based upon what you have read. Note: Your reader report will be different each week. Matching Questions: Match the term to its correct definition by inputting the letter for the correct definition on the line to the left of the corresponding term. (1pt./each) _______ The Black Panther Party _______ The Voting Rights Act of 1965 _______ The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party _______ The Enforcement Act of 1871 A. act that attempted to provide Black people with legislative protection from lynching by prohibiting terrorist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, from violently or otherwise preventing Black voting, jury
service, or office-holding. B. organization formed by voting rights activists to coordinate voter registration in Mississippi. C. organization formed by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 that developed a ten-point program to promote Black Power and positive self-imagine, and self-determination for Black people. D. act that banished poll taxes and literacy tests and required federal registers to register Black voters. Multiple Choice Questions: Bold the correct answer. (1pt./each) 1. ________ was a Black male activist who called for the creation of organizations, institutions, schools, programs, research, and scholarship that would redress the deliberate miseducation of Black Americans as a first step toward self-acceptance, personal empowerment, and nation building. o Martin Luther King, Jr.
o Malcolm X o Jesse Jackson o Stokely Carmichael 2. ________ was a Black woman investigative journalist who declared lynching as an act or terror and debunked the myth of black hypersexuality as a factor in lynching cases. o Ella Baker o Pauli Murray o Fannie Lou Hamer o Ida B. Wells 3. ________ was a Black woman activist who helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and ran for a Mississippi seat in the U.S Congress. o Shirley Chisolm o Pauli Murray o Fannie Lou Hamer o Ida B. Wells 4. The Los Angeles uprisings and riots in 1965 sparked _______ to rethink the meaning of “civil rights.” He realized that a focus on legislative reform was not enough for addressing the social conditions, economic dislocation, and human
dignity of Black people. o Martin Luther King, Jr. o Malcolm X o Jesse Jackson o Stokely Carmichael 5. _________ was a Black woman activist who fought to include protections against sex (gender) -based discrimination as a civil right in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. o Ella Baker o Pauli Murray o Fannie Lou Hamer o Ida B. Wells 6. ________ and ________ were two African Americans to run for presidency before 44th President Baraka Obama ran for president. o Jesse Jackson and Bobby Rush o Shirley Chisolm and Al Sharpton o Bobby Rush and Ella Baker o Shirley Chisolm and Jesse Jackson True / False Questions: Bold the correct answer. (1pt./ each) 1. In 1966, FBI director J.
Edgar Hoover outlined a new counterintelligence operation called cointelpro as an attempt to infiltrate and neutralize the Black Panthers. True / False 2. “The Black Freedom Movement” is a framework that describes the African American struggle for civil and human rights between the mid-1940s and mid-1970s and includes the civil rights movement and Black Power movement. True / False 3. “Civil rights” defines the protected rights and privileges of citizens that included government legislated strivings for inclusion and protection. True / False 4. African American Studies scholars, like Quincy T. Mills and Hasan Kwame Jeffries, argue that “civil rights” is an inadequate terminology to describe Black freedom struggles because “civil rights” represents a colorblind ideology that did not center an interest in
obtaining freedom, in all forms, for Black people. True / False
5. A. Phillip Randolph, executive secretary of Atlanta’s SCLC office, argued that student protestors were seeking to rid America of the scourge of racial segregation and discrimination not only at lunch counters, but in every aspect of life. True / False Short Answer Questions: Write the correct answer in bold. (5pts./each) 1. Identify and briefly describe an important event that took place in the history of the civil rights movement and the Black freedom struggle for each date listed below: 1955 1956 1960 1961 1963 2. List the five provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 3. When did the Black Lives Matter movement emerge?
What was the event that led to the development of BLM? Who are the Black women that began BLM?