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mspears3

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When the National Conference on Black Power met in Newark, New Jersey in July 1967, the most influential figures were:
 
  A) veterans of the civil rights movement in the South.
  B) black nationalists who sought to speak for discontented ghetto residents.
  C) Black Panthers from Oakland, California who were trying to organize new locals.
  D) violent militants who demanded the immediate overthrow of the American system.

Question 2

When Martin Luther King, Jr. took SCLC's Chicago Freedom Movement campaign to the suburb of Cicero:
 
  A) he found white liberals ready to rally around his efforts and contribute resources to this new venture.
  B) white mobs responded to his open housing marches with bricks and bottles as well as with racial epithets.
  C) he found that black power activists had gotten there before him.
  D) he was met by Mayor Richard Daley who publicly declared his support for King's mission.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B



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