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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?