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Quiz for Document 28–4: Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did SNCC predict that “the black man in the ghetto” would lead the black power movement?

He knew white oppression from experience.

He was free from southern white oppression.

He had contacts with progressive white elites.

He had learned the benefits of nonviolent resistance.

2. According to SNCC, why was the “bourgeois Negro” excluded from the black power movement?

The “bourgeois Negro” was too brainwashed by white society.

The “bourgeois Negro” could not be trusted.

The “bourgeois Negro” would only pursue nonviolent protest.

The “bourgeois Negro” was too concerned with preserving his own gains.

3. How did SNCC propose to infiltrate government agencies?

By cultivating white allies in positions of power

By relying on intelligence from existing black employees

By placing recent college graduates in strategic positions

By using wiretaps and photo surveillance

4. Who did SNCC identify as important allies for the black power movement?

Other ethnic minorities in the United States

White liberals

Poor people in other nations

Communists