Drill 26 · Multiple Choice · Unit 4: Movements and Debates
AP African American Studies: Civil Rights Organizations and Grassroots Leadership — Drill 26 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 4: Movements and Debates. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Practice AP African American Studies exam questions on the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, and the grassroots leaders who powered the Civil Rights Movement. These AP exam prep questions cover Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and key campaigns from Montgomery to the March on Washington.
The following is from Ella Baker's article “Bigger Than a Hamburger,” published in the Southern Patriot in May 1960. Baker wrote the article to summarize her address at the founding conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), held at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, over Easter weekend 1960.
“The Student Leadership Conference made it crystal clear that current sit-ins and other demonstrations are concerned with something much bigger than a hamburger or even a giant-sized Coke. […] By and large, this feeling that they have a destined date with freedom, was not limited to a drive for personal freedom, or even freedom for the Negro in the South. Repeatedly it was emphasized that the movement was concerned with the moral implications of racial discrimination for the 'whole world' and the 'Human Race.'
[…] This inclination toward group-centered leadership, rather than toward a leader-centered group pattern of organization, was refreshing indeed to those of the older group who bear the scars of the battle, the frustrations and the disillusionment that come when the prophetic leader turns out to have heavy feet of clay.”
Source: Ella Baker, “Bigger Than a Hamburger,” Southern Patriot, May 1960.