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Racial Unrest and Civil Rights in the USA 04

Three American athletes made the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics.

Racial Unrest and Civil Rights in the USA 04

By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity and freedom from oppression by white Americans. Try our fourth History quiz on Racial Unrest and Civil Rights in the USA.

Which of these options do you prefer?

  1. Which civil rights movement used more violent methods?

  2. Who was a major Black Power figure?

  3. What was Malcolm X's real name?

  4. At which Olympics did three American athletes make the Black Power salute?

  5. Which actor and singer tried to make lynching illegal?

  6. Malcolm X was assassinated in which year?

  7. Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?

  8. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale formed which 1960's protest group?

  9. The Civil Rights Act was passed in which year?

  10. Which boxer changed his 'slave name' of Cassius Clay?

Quiz written by Jan Crompton

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