Are You a '60s Radical? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Students for a Democratic Society

SDS was one of the most popular campus groups of the '60s and was active in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements.

Answer: Stokely Carmichael

Carmichael was the controversial leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who expelled white members from the organization.

Answer: Eldridge Cleaver

The "Chicago 7" were a group of activists who were tried for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. The other defendants were Rennie Davis, Dave Dellenger, Lee Weiner and John Froines. Black Panther, Bobby Seale, was originally the eighth defendant before he was sentenced to jail for contempt of court.

The defendants were convicted, but the convictions were overturned on appeal.

Answer: False

The Black Panther Party philosophy can best be described as a mix of "Black nationalism" and socialism. The Panthers were strong believers in coalition building and advocated forming alliances with left wing whites, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans.

Answer: The Weathermen

The Weatherman (later, the Weather Underground) was a radical offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society which planted bombs and advocated the destruction of the power structure in order to cause a revolution. The Black Panthers believed in using force for self-defense and carried weapons to protect themselves from police.

The Yippies used non-violent theatrics to get their message across. While the conservative DAR advocated both property destruction and violence, it was against the Vietnamese.

Answer: Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera was allegedly recruited for his first reporting job after a news director saw him on television as the Young Lords' lawyer.

Answer: Angela Davis

An outspoken radical, Davis was fired from UCLA for her affiliation with the Communist Party. Lynd, a prominent antiwar activist, was denied tenure at Yale after visiting Hanoi. Leary was fired from Harvard for his controversial experiments involving LSD.

Answer: Kent State

In the 1960s, there were high profile demonstrations and unrest at Berkeley (the free speech rallies and Peoples' Park riots), Columbia (the occupation of the President's office) and National Autonomous University of Mexico (NAUM/UNAM) (the 1968 student movement). Kent State in Ohio, however, was comparatively quiet throughout the decade.

It was not until 1970 that massive protests broke out in response to the United States bombing of Cambodia. Those protests, of course, culminated in the killing of four students by the Ohio National Guard that tragically put Kent State on the national map.

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Toward the end of his life, King adopted a socialist philosophy. He came out against the Vietnam War, advocated unionization of poor workers and founded the poor peoples' movement, which pushed for an economic system based on social justice.

Answer: Accusing it of sexism

Activists Hayden and King published "Sex and Caste" in 1965, protesting the movement's sexism and pointing out that while the organizational leaders were all male, women were relegated to subordinate positions. Many consider this a founding document of the 1970s women's rights movement.