Movements and Debates
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Read the following excerpt from activist and writer Frances M. Beal's 1969 essay, "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female":
> "The Black woman has been defined as a 'beast of burden' in the economic sphere and has suffered the dual oppression of race and sex. Therefore, those who are advocating that the Black woman align herself with the white feminist movement are overlooking the fact that the oppression of Black women is also inextricably bound up with the capitalist exploitation of her labor. A middle-class white woman's primary fight may be against male chauvinism, but for the Black woman, the struggle is also against a system that denies her and her family the very means of survival."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes how Beal's analysis of the Black woman's condition distinguishes Black feminist thought from mainstream white feminism of the late twentieth century?
Read the excerpt below and answer the following question.
"Concerning nonviolence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. It is legal and quite consistent with common sense to participate in self-defense where the government is unable or unwilling to defend us."
— Malcolm X, April 1964
Based on this excerpt, which of the following statements best describes Malcolm X's justification for the use of self-defense?
Read the excerpt from Wallace Thurman’s novel *Infants of the Spring* (1932) and answer the question that follows.
"We are all, writers, painters, poets, and sculptors, showcase exhibits... The younger generation is in revolt, but it is a revolt without a program. We have rebelled against the paternalism of our elders, who insisted that every book or painting must be a document of racial uplift. Yet in doing so, we have fallen into the trap of satisfying the white fad for the exotic and the primitive."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes the central tension Thurman identifies within the New Negro Movement?
In her 1983 book *In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens*, Alice Walker coined and defined the term "womanist." She described a womanist as a Black feminist or feminist of color who is "committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female," concluding that "womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
Which of the following best explains how Alice Walker's concept of womanism differs from mainstream second-wave feminism?
Read the historical summary of the 1915 legal case *Johnson v. McAdoo* below:
In 1915, the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association, led by Callie House and others, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Treasury. The suit demanded the return of approximately $68 million collected by the federal government through a tax on raw cotton between 1862 and 1868. The plaintiffs argued that because this cotton had been produced by the uncompensated labor of enslaved African Americans, the tax revenue represented stolen wages that rightfully belonged to the survivors of slavery.
Which of the following statements best analyzes the significance of this legal strategy in the context of the early reparations movement?
In his 1962 book *Negroes with Guns*, civil rights activist Robert F. Williams wrote:
'The Southern brute respects only force. The nonviolent method is only successful when the oppressor is willing to be shamed. But when the oppressor has no shame, he must be met with a force that he respects.'
Which of the following statements best describes how Williams's philosophy of armed self-defense differed from the concept of nonviolent direct action as advocated by organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
Read the following excerpt from an editorial published in a Black weekly newspaper in the 1920s:
'The advocates of the Congresses believe that by petitioning European capitals and holding polite assemblies in Paris or London, they can coax the colonizers into granting us our rights. They seek reform within the colonial structure. We, however, believe in absolute self-determination. We do not petition European powers; we seek to build our own commercial enterprises, our own shipping lines, and ultimately, our own sovereign nation in Africa. True freedom cannot be begged from empires; it must be built by our own hands.'
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes the primary ideological disagreement between the organizers of the Pan-African Congresses and the followers of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)?
During the early twentieth century, different leaders proposed distinct paths for the liberation of the African diaspora. W.E.B. Du Bois, writing in a 1921 issue of The Crisis, argued that the Pan-African Congresses sought 'an intellectual understanding and cooperation among all groups of African descent' to lobby colonial powers for reform. In contrast, Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) promoted Black nationalism and economic independence through enterprises such as the Black Star Line. Which of the following statements best describes a key difference between the strategies of W.E.B. Du Bois's Pan-African Congresses and Marcus Garvey's UNIA?
Read the excerpt from a historical petition below:
"We, your petitioners, most respectfully represent to your honorable bodies that we are ex-slaves... who did, by our labor, clear the forests, cultivate the fields, and build the cities of the South... We now ask that a law be passed by Congress to grant us a pension, not as a matter of charity, but as a matter of justice and compensation for our unpaid labor."
— Petition of the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association to the United States Congress, late 1890s
Based on this petition and its historical context, which of the following best describes the core argument for pensions presented by the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association?
Read the following excerpt from the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) Statement of Purpose (1973):
"We feel that the Black movement must address itself to the liberation of Black women, and that the women's movement must address itself to the oppression of Black women. Black women cannot afford to choose between these movements... We must speak out and act on our own behalf."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best explains why the NBFO argued that Black women "cannot afford to choose" between the Black movement and the women's movement?
Read the excerpt from George S. Schuyler's 1926 essay 'Negro-Art Hokum' and answer the question that follows:
"Aside from his color, which ranging from very dark brown to pinkish white has no influence on his mentalities and outlook, the American Negro is just plain American... As a class, the Negroes of the United States are as different from the African Negroes as two groups of humans can be. The American Negro writer, painter, and sculptor are subject to the same influences as their white fellow citizens, and their work is as American as their speech."
Which of the following contemporary perspectives directly challenged Schuyler’s argument by asserting that Black artists should focus on expressing their distinct racial and cultural heritage?
During the 1966 March Against Fear in Mississippi, civil rights groups debated whether to permit the Deacons for Defense and Justice—an armed self-defense organization—to guard the marchers. While some national leaders worried this would compromise the moral authority of nonviolent protest, local activists pointed out that without armed guards, marchers would be unprotected from vigilante violence.
Which of the following statements best analyzes the relationship between nonviolent direct action and armed self-defense during the Civil Rights Movement?
Read the following excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois's essay 'The Talented Tenth' (1903):
'If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men; if we make technical skill the object of education, we may provide bread-winners but we will not develop those who will guide and elevate society.'
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes how Du Bois's educational philosophy differed from that of Booker T. Washington?
Read the excerpt below from a statement by Charles Sims, a leader of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and answer the following question:
"We didn't go out looking for trouble, but we made up our minds that we were going to protect our communities and the civil rights workers. The local authorities only started to respect the nonviolent demonstrators when they realized that behind those nonviolent marches stood people who were willing to exercise their right to self-defense."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following statements best describes how the philosophy of armed self-defense related to the nonviolent direct action campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement?
Read the following passage from Patricia Hill Collins’s *Black Feminist Thought* (1990):
> "The matrix of domination refers to how intersecting oppressions are actually organized. Regardless of the particular intersection in question, single-axis frameworks of analysis are limited in their ability to explain how Black women experience oppression."
Based on the passage, which of the following best explains how the concept of the "matrix of domination" differs from mainstream, single-axis feminist frameworks of the late twentieth century?
Reflecting on the philosophy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the early 1960s, an activist explained: "Nonviolence was never about running away or quietly accepting abuse. It was about standing our ground, putting our bodies on the line, and forcing the system to reveal its brutality. It was a confrontational weapon, not a shield to hide behind."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes the strategic purpose of nonviolent direct action in the Civil Rights Movement?
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, the Welsh, Irish, and Scotch in the British Dominions... But we have been doomed to a different fate... We must change our condition, and that change must be a self-elevation, which can only be achieved by a separate and independent existence.'
Which of the following statements best describes the perspective on emigration expressed in this excerpt?
Read the following excerpt from an 1848 editorial by Frederick Douglass in *The North Star*:
'We are here, and here we must remain. It is idle to talk of exporting us... We are Americans; our destiny is linked with that of the American people. We have grown up with this republic, and we write our history on its soil. To ask us to leave is to surrender our birthright and leave our brothers in bonds without our aid.'
Based on this excerpt, which of the following best describes the core objection of integrationist Black abolitionists to emigrationism?
Read the excerpt from the preface to *The Book of American Negro Poetry* (1922), written by writer and activist James Weldon Johnson, and answer the question that follows:
"What the colored poet in the United States needs to do is something like what Synge did for the Irish; he needs to find a form that will express the racial spirit by symbols from within rather than by symbols from without, and which will be freed from the limitations of Negro dialect as a medium, especially the limitations that practically cut off all emotions but humor and pathos."
Which of the following statements best describes the primary challenge for African American artists identified by Johnson in the excerpt?
Read the following excerpt from a 1971 essay by Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party:
'We say that the survival programs are not answers to our deep-seated problems... They are, however, a means of organizing the community around a practical program of self-determination, so that we may survive to achieve our ultimate liberation.'
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes the role of 'survival programs' in the Black Power movement?