Starter quiz
- Match the following keywords with the correct definitions.
- Black Power⇔political name for groups for self determination for Black Americans ✓
- orator⇔a public speaker ✓
- white supremacists⇔people who believe that those identified as 'white' are superior ✓
- pilgrimage⇔a religious journey to a place of significance ✓
- What keyword describes the belief that keeping people separate is the right thing to do?
- 'separatism' ✓
- What group was also known as the Nation of Islam?
- Black Muslims ✓
- White Muslims
- Black Christians
- White Supremacists
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- What happened to Malcolm X in 1965?
- He was made President.
- He was assassinated. ✓
- He was sent to prison.
- He joined the Nation of Islam.
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- Malcolm X's changing policies went on to become the foundation of which of the following?
- the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- the Black Panther Party ✓
- the Black Power movement ✓
- the Black Muslims
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- By the end of 1964, who was Malcolm X moving towards some level of alliance with?
- Stokely Carmichael
- Martin Luther King Jr ✓
- Malcolm Little
- Elijah Muhammad
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Exit quiz
- Match the keywords to the correct definitions.
- integrated⇔groups with both black and white Americans ✓
- self-determination⇔when a person or group is able to control their own life/lives ✓
- self-sufficiency⇔to be able to provide for yourself without any outside help ✓
- Whose slogan was ‘Black Power for Black People’?
- the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- the Lowndes County Freedom Organisation (LCFO) ✓
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Malcolm X
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- Which event raised the profile of the Black Power Movement?
- 'The Mexico Olympics' ✓
- What did Stokely Carmichael and the Black Power movement support/encourage amongst black Americans?
- self-sufficiency ✓
- self-determination ✓
- self defence ✓
- spending
- separatism ✓
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- How did many white Americans interpret the Black Power movement?
- as a uniting and integrated organisation
- as a violent, anti-black movement
- as a peaceful, pro-civil rights movement
- as a violent, anti-white organisation ✓
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- The assassination of who resulted in rapidly increasing support for a militant approach to the fight against racial injustice?
- Martin Luther King Jr ✓
- Robert Kennedy ✓
- John F. Kennedy
- Malcolm X
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Key learning points
- Continued riots and unrest following the Civil Rights Act (1964) led to some looking for new methods of protest.
- Stokely Carmichael led several other members of SNCC to reject many groups and create their own political force.
- The Black Power movement faced a lot of criticism because some believed it meant separatism.
- The Mexico Olympics (1968) raised the profile of the Black Power Movement, with several athletes pledging their support.
Common misconception
The Black Power movement was entirely separate from the civil rights movement.
Many of the leading figures of the Black Power movement began as civil rights activists, who had grown frustrated with the lack of progress and looked to more radical methods and beliefs.
Keywords
Integrated - integrated groups are groups with both black and white Americans
Black power - Black Power is the political name for groups aiming for self determination for black Americans
Self-determination - self-determination is when a person or group is able to control their own life/lives
Self-sufficiency - to be able to provide for yourself without any outside help is called self-sufficiency
Separatism - separatism is the the belief that keeping people separate is the right thing to do; the Black Muslims believed in separating white and black Americans