“Or Does it Explode?”

In his poem 'Lenox Avenue Mural,' what final question does Langston Hughes pose about a 'dream deferred'?

What event in Montgomery at the end of 1955 is described as the beginning of the black revolt of the 1950s and 1960s?

Within the twelve months following the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960, approximately how many people were put in jail for participating in demonstrations?

What was the federal government's response when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) asked for protection for the Freedom Rides in 1961?

What was the significance of the phrase 'Freedom, Freedom,' as described in the context of the Albany, Georgia movement?

What reason did Malcolm X give for the 1963 March on Washington losing its militancy?

According to government estimates in the spring of 1963, what was the unemployment rate for nonwhites compared to whites?

What was the slogan that arose in the mid-1960s, reflecting a new mood of racial pride, black independence, and a rejection of paternalism?

What was the primary finding of the National Advisory Committee on Urban Disorders regarding the 1967 riots?

Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI's COINTELPRO program took how many actions against black groups?

What was the context of the Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 Detroit riots?

According to a secret FBI report to President Nixon in 1970, what percentage of the black population was estimated to have 'a great respect for the Black Panther Party'?

The movement of the 1960s is described as being a surprise, but the author argues it should not have been because of:

What was the outcome of the trial for the three Detroit policemen and one private guard accused of killing three black teen-agers in the Algiers Motel?

According to the chapter, what was the primary purpose of government programs like 'black capitalism' in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

By 1965, what percentage of the black population in the United States lived in cities?

In Claude McKay's poem from the Harlem Renaissance, what is the central theme urged upon his people?

What was the result of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on black voter registration in the South by 1968?

According to the chapter, what was the primary tool of the federal government in its attempt to control the black revolt?

How many demonstrators were recorded by the Department of Justice in the three months of 1963?

Who was the minister and ex-marine in Monroe, North Carolina, known for his view that blacks should defend themselves with guns if necessary?

In what year did the violent urban outbreak in Watts, Los Angeles, occur?

What was the final verdict in the court case concerning the murder of three black teen-agers in the Algiers Motel during the 1967 Detroit riots?

What did a secret FBI report in 1970 reveal about the level of respect for the Black Panther Party among blacks under 21 years of age?

What was the total number of actions the FBI's COINTELPRO took against black groups between 1956 and 1971?

In Richard Wright's autobiography 'Black Boy', what did a friend who ran an elevator say would happen if it weren't for the police and lynch mobs?

What was the stated purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, and what was a significant exception included in it?

What happened to the four girls attending Sunday school in a Birmingham church eighteen days after the 1963 March on Washington?

What organization did Martin Luther King, Jr. plan before his death, which was to be a 'militant, massive non-violence' action in Washington?

What was the final result for the police officers tried in the Jackson State College killings of 1970?

How much in damages did a federal jury in Boston award two black soldiers who had been victims of 'excessive force' by a policeman in 1970?

Who did Robert Allen, in his book 'Black Awakening in Capitalist America,' argue must manage black business firms for the community to benefit?

By 1977, what percentage of elective offices in the South did blacks hold, despite being 20 percent of the population?

What was the median black family income in 1977 as a percentage of white family income?

The chapter argues that the government's use of busing to integrate schools was an 'ingenious concession' because it had what effect?

In the context of the prison movement, what was the significance of the Attica rebellion in September 1971?

What was the official story given by prison authorities for the deaths of nine guards at Attica, and what did autopsies later show?

By 1960, the Indian population in the United States had grown to what number, from a low of 300,000 at the turn of the century?

What dramatic event in November 1969 focused national attention on Indian grievances?

The 'Indians of All Tribes' who occupied Alcatraz offered to buy the island for what symbolic price?

What event in March 1973 served as a powerful affirmation that the Indians of North America were 'still alive'?

The chapter connects the rise of the women's movement in the 1960s to what other social movement?

What was the name of the influential book by Betty Friedan that described the 'problem that has no name' for middle-class housewives?

What was the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1973 case Roe v. Wade?

The term 'consciousness raising' as used in the women's movement of the sixties referred to what activity?

What was the life expectancy of an Oglala Sioux on the Pine Ridge reservation in the 1970s?

How many prisoners were killed in the assault by state forces to end the Attica prison rebellion?

What was the final outcome of the trial of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton's killers?

The author suggests that in the 1970s, there was a new kind of political prisoner. What defined this new type?

By 1977, how many blacks held elective office in the eleven southern states?