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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.

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.

#1. 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

#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. 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

#4. Maxwell Stanford:

Was a close confidant of Malcolm X

Was National Chairman of Revolutionary Action Movement

Is a leading theoretician of revolutionary black nationalism

All of the above

#5. George Jackson was

A member of the Panther 21

Murdered in prison

Replaced Michael Jackson in 'The Jacksons

Malcolm X's bodyguard

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. What African American leader has been referred to as, the Father of Black nationalism in the US?

Martin DeLaney

Huey P. Newton

Marcus Garvey

Malcolm X

#9. Bunchie Carter was

An early Hip Hop artist

Shot in Greensboro, NC, in 1979

Founder of Southern California Black Panther Party

A New York Gangster who became a black leader

#10. Who was the first chairman of SNCC?

John Lewis

Julian Bond

Marion Barry

Howard Zinn

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