Movements and Debates
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During the antebellum period, Black abolitionists debated how to best secure freedom and equality. While some advocated for voluntary emigration, others strongly opposed it. Which of the following best describes the primary argument of Black abolitionists who opposed the emigration movement?
In his autobiography, *The Big Sea*, Langston Hughes reflects on his relationship with a wealthy white patron:
> '[She] wanted me to be primitive and know and feel the intuitions of the wild, untamed, unsatisfied surges of Negro blood. She did not want me to write about northern cities, or working people, or the problems of the industrial South. She wanted me to be a child of nature, and write from the heart, not from the mind.'
Which central cultural debate of the New Negro Movement is most directly reflected in this conflict?
Read the passage below from an 1852 editorial on Black emigration:
"We have no faith in the American Colonization Society. Its agents are the enemies of our race, seeking to banish the free colored people to sustain the system of slavery. But voluntary emigration to Canada, under the protection of British laws, is a different matter. It is a path to immediate freedom and self-reliance for those who refuse to live under the shadow of the Fugitive Slave Law."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes the primary distinction the author makes between voluntary emigration and the program of the American Colonization Society?
Read the following excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois writing about the First Pan-African Congress in The Crisis (1919):
'The object of the Congress... is to bring about, by gradual and peaceful steps, the development of the native peoples of Africa, and to secure for them the right to participate in their own government as fast as their development will permit.'
Which of the following best describes how the approach outlined in the excerpt differed from Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) platform?
Read the excerpt below from *Black Power: The Politics of Liberation* (1967) by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton:
> "Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. By this we mean that group solidarity is a necessary prerequisite for a group's effective participation in a democratic process."
Which of the following best describes how the authors' argument in the excerpt reflects a central tenet of the Black Power movement?
In her 1983 collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker defines a 'womanist' as a Black feminist or feminist of color who is 'committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female.'
Based on this definition, which of the following best describes a key difference between womanism and mainstream second-wave feminism of the era?
Read the excerpt below and answer the following question.
"We do not look for, nor do we desire, the aid of any colonization society. The colored people of the United States who emigrate to Canada do so as free agents, seeking a government that respects their rights, rather than being shipped away by those who wish to rid the republic of our presence while maintaining the institution of slavery. In Canada, we find a field of labor and a home under equal laws."
— Mary Ann Shadd Cary, *A Plea for Emigration; or, Notes of Canada West*, 1852
Which of the following statements best analyzes the debate surrounding emigrationism and colonization in the 1850s as reflected in the excerpt?
"The African person is not a spectator, but an actor, a subject rather than an object of historical processes. To study Africa or its diaspora without centering African perspectives, values, and agency is to perpetuate a Eurocentric hegemony that marginalizes African experiences."
— Adapted from Molefi Kete Asante, *Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change*
Based on the passage, which of the following best characterizes the primary scholarly goal of Afrocentricity as a methodological framework?
Read the excerpt from an editorial in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) publication, The Negro World (1922):
'The UNIA is not seeking a path of academic petition to colonial powers for gradual reform. We do not ask for a seat at the table of the League of Nations, dominated as it is by the very empires that partitioned our homeland. Our goal is the complete redemption of Africa and the building of a mighty empire of our own, financed by the trade and industry of the black race itself.'
Which of the following best analyzes the distinction between the ideology expressed in the excerpt and the contemporary Pan-Africanist movement led by W.E.B. Du Bois?
Read the excerpt below from the Black Panther Party's Ten-Point Program (1966):
> "We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny."
Which of the following core concepts of the Black Power movement is best expressed in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows.
"The Southern brute respects only force. Nonviolence is a powerful weapon when one's opponent is civilized and has a conscience. But where there is no law, and the local officers of the law are the lawless ones, we have a right and a duty to protect ourselves."
— Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns, 1962
Which of the following statements best describes how this viewpoint challenges a common interpretation of the relationship between nonviolent direct action and armed self-defense in the Civil Rights Movement?
In the late nineteenth century, Callie House co-founded the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association. Which of the following best describes the primary goal of this organization?
Read the excerpt below from Anna Julia Cooper’s *A Voice from the South* (1892):
"Only the Black woman can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.' ... She is the confrontation of all the forces that have been or are now at work in our civilization, and she must be understood and analyzed in all those relations."
Based on this excerpt, which of the following statements best describes Cooper's central argument regarding the role of Black women in the struggle for civil rights and racial uplift?
Read the excerpt below:
"The debt is not about individual handouts. It is about a structural response to a structural grievance. Centuries of state-sanctioned racial oppression created a massive economic gap that cannot be closed by self-help alone. Reparations must take the form of structural investments in education, housing, and economic development to heal the systemic wounds of the past."
— Randall Robinson, *The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks* (2000)
Based on the excerpt, which of the following statements best summarizes Randall Robinson's argument for reparations?
Read the following excerpt from the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) Statement of Purpose (1973):
"We, who are Black, who are women, who are feminists, and who are together, are dedicated to the struggle for liberation... We realize that the liberation of Black women will not come through a struggle against racism alone, or sexism alone, but through a unified front against all forms of oppression."
Based on this excerpt, which of the following best describes the primary goal of the National Black Feminist Organization?
Read the excerpt from Stokely Carmichael's address on 'Black Power' at the University of California, Berkeley (October 1966):
"We are on the move for our liberation. We have been opening our mouths and saying what we, as Black people, want, not what the white liberal thinks we need. We want to define ourselves. We want to build our own communities, run our own schools, and control our own institutions."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes the primary objective of the Black Power movement as articulated by Carmichael?
Read the following excerpt from Martin Delany's *The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States* (1852):
'We are a nation within a nation;—as the Poles in Russia, the Hungarians in Austria... but we have been doomed to a different fate... Our friends in this country, who have been advocating our cause, have been doing so under a mistaken policy... They have been trying to make us what we can never be—citizens of the United States.'
Which of the following statements best describes the primary conflict between the author's viewpoint in this excerpt and the position of integrationist abolitionists like Frederick Douglass?
Read the following excerpt from a 1971 essay by Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party:
"We call them survival programs, meaning survival pending revolution... We have a Free Breakfast for School Children Program, we have Free Health Clinics, and we are planning a Free Clothing Program. We serve the people's needs."
According to this excerpt and your knowledge of the Black Power movement, what was the primary purpose of these survival programs?
In areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, we must take steps to defend ourselves. This is a basic constitutional right, and it is a matter of survival. We are not advocating the initiation of violence; we are advocating the right to defend ourselves against lawless violence.
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes how the strategy of armed self-defense differs from the strategy of nonviolent direct action?
In his 1903 work *The Souls of Black Folk*, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote the following concerning Booker T. Washington's leadership:
'So far as Mr. Washington preaches Thrift, Patience, and Industrial Training for the masses, we must hold up his hands and strive with him... But so far as Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, North or South, does not value the privilege and duty of voting, belittles the higher training and aspirations of our sons... we must unceasingly and firmly oppose them.'
Which of the following statements best characterizes the nature of the intellectual debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington as reflected in this passage?