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Good job. Knowledge about the African American activists and leaders who built and led the historical struggle for African American freedom and self determination is crucial in order to pass that history on to newer generations who may have been disconnected from that history of struggle themselves.

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All of the correct answers can be researched on this site. Also, most correct answers can be searched online; however, one or more correct answer is factually correct but differs from the answer you will retrieve when you search online. Let’s see if you can figure out which one. The key is that historians who were not movement activists largely repeat an incorrect answer to a question about the Black Panther Party’s origins.

Correct knowledge about the African American activists and leaders who built and led the historical struggle for African American freedom and self determination is crucial in order to pass that history on to newer generations who may have been disconnected from that history of struggle themselves.

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#1. Where was the Black Panther Party first organized?

Oakland, California

Chicago, Illinois

New York City

Montgomery, Alabama

#2. Which of these female African American leaders spent over 80 years in the African American struggle?

Harriet Tubman

Ella Baker

Queen Mother Moore

Sojourner Truth

#3. Which is false about Martin Luther King Jr.?

His real name is Michael

He got a 'C' in Public Speaking

He was a huge Trekkie ( fan of Star trek)

None of the above

#4. In what year was the Black Panther Party organized?

1965

1966

1969

1968

#5. Who was Robert F. Williams?

International Chairman of the RAM (Revolutionary Action Movement)

Author of 'Negroes With Guns'

President of the Monroe, NC branch of NAACP

All of the Above

#6. Who was the first black mayor of a Major US City? ? While Richard

Richard Hatcher

Maynard Jackson

Carl Stokes

Kenneth Gibson

While Richard “Dick” Hatcher (Gary, Indiana) is generally celebrated among black activists as the first black mayor of a major US city, he and Carl Stokes (Clevland, Ohio) were both elected on November 7, 1967 and sworn in on January 1st, 1968. However, Cleveland’s population was, and is, larger than the population of Gary, Indiana.

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#7. Malcolm X was also Known as:

Omawale

Detroit Red

El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

All of the above

#8. In 1968, the FBI’s COINTELPRO Program was expanded to prevent:

The coalition of militant black nationalist groups

The rise of a black messiah

The growth of black nationalist groups among youth

All of the above

#9. Who was the first chairman of SNCC?

John Lewis

Julian Bond

Marion Barry

Howard Zinn

#10. Choose the correct answer. Marcus Garvey:

Was born in Africa

Moved back to Africa

Came to the US on a slave ship

Was a target for surveillance by J. Edgar Hoover

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