Exam 7: African Americans

The Emancipation Proclamation ________.

The founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is associated with ________.

The ________ marked the merging of White liberalism and Black militancy, a coalition unknown since the end of the abolition movement and Reconstruction.

Martin Luther King, Jr. saw ________ as a "cry of disappointment" but acknowledged that it had a "positive meaning."

Distinguish the tactics and ideology of the early civil rights period (1954-1965) from those of the period since 1965.

Which of the following statements is true of urban violence and oppression in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States?

One of the central conditions on which slavery in the United States rested was that ________.

An aspect of Black enslavement was the slaves' own resistance to ________.

Which of the following statements is true of Black Power?

Active nonviolent resistance is an example of ________.

Government records made public in 1973 revealed that the FBI ________.

Which of the following was rare in dealing with violations of slave codes?

Since 1989, Congressman John Conyers, a Black Democrat from Detroit, has annually introduced in Congress a bill to acknowledge the ________.

Numerous riots broke out throughout the country with extreme violence against African Americans in the aftermath of ________.

One reason for the popularity of Black Power among African Americans was that ________.

Discuss the aspects of slavery that destroyed the stability and continuity of family life for Black people.

Describe the antislavery movement and its major goals. Why was racial equality not necessarily on the agenda of the abolitionists?

________ refers to a deliberate effort to maximize the number of offspring.