The African-American (chapters 21-24) in the political and social History of the U.S., 1877-Present.
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How do most White Americans view the 1950's ?
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as a time of stable families, great prosperity, and few troubles
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What amendment did the NAACP claim Southern States were violating when they locked black graduate education facilities or request admittance to blacks ?
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Which of the following cases involved a young woman who had been denied admission to a law school because she was black ?
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Sipuel v.Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma
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What did the brown 11 decision say
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school should desegregate
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What group was pivotal in early organizing in protest against the segregated buses in montgomery ?
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women's political council
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What event sparked the Montgomery Bus boycott ?
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The arrest of Rosa Parks, a local seamstress and civil rights activist
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By 1960, about 75% of a lll systems had been desegregated
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True
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Rosas Parks was arrested for refusing to move from her seat for a white man
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True
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Rosa parks served one month in jail
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False
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J. Edgar Hoover once said that Martin Luther King Jr. was the most dangerous man in America
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True
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In 1960, College Students began to come to the forefront of the civil rights movement ?
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True
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The Freedom Riders that persevered through Alabama were welcomed in Mississippi
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False
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The blacks did not support John F. Kennedy's Presidential election
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False
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Mississippi was generally seen as the symbolic center of racism and violence in 1964
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True
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What party did Freedom Summer activists create to challenge the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party ?
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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What happened to civil rights protesters as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery ?
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The police tear-gassed and beat the demonstrators, all which was captured on television
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What act of violence was the immediate cause of Johnson Pushing through the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ?
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The murder of James Reeb, a white minister from Boston who was visiting Alabama
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What did the Voting Rights Act of ?
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How did California demonstrate in 1964 that it was apposed to racial desegregation ?
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It passed a state constitutional amendment repealing all legislation banning discrimination in housing
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How did the candidacy of George Wallace and an avowed racists, fare in the Presidential of 1964 ?
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Wallace did surprisingly well in several states outside the South
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How did Malcolm X's views begin to change after his visit to Mecca in 1964 ?
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He renounced his former view that all whites were evil, and began specking about connections between systems in Africa and the United States
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What did Carmichael say Black Power meant?
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Positive-self identity, racial pride, and independent economic and political power
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What type of programs did the Black Panthers start in urban areas ?
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What were conditions like for most urban blacks during the 1960's ?
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Economically, most blacks were far worse off than white Americans
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What was a primary complaint among many black communities that had riots in the years from 1965 to 1969 ?
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Charges of police brutality or unfair, discriminatory practices
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Why were people surprised by the Detroit riot in the summer of 1967 ?
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Detroit seemed a model city for race relations, especially with the importance of Motown
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What did the Kerner Commission recommend ?
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What led to the downfall of the \"Great Society\" programs ?
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Lyndon Johnson's increased spending of the Vietnam War
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Some politicians opposed the Great Society because they felt that the programs only rewarded the lazy and the undeserving
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True
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Ho Chi Minh was the leader of The Vietnamese communists in 1945 and after
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True
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President Johnson had mixed feelings regarding the U.S. involvement in Vietnam
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True
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Blacks served in increasing percentages during the Vietnam War
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True
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John Hinckley is widely credited with assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King
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False
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Berry Gordy was considered The \"Godfather of Soul\"
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False
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The black intellectuals considered jazz music the most important and influential during the black arts movement
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True
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Berry Gordy was important in black throughout the production of black music and also through financing important ventures.
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True
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Which college created the first Black Studies Department in 1968 ?
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San Francisco State College
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During the election of 1968, what did George Wallace, a candidate for the presidential position, stress ?
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He denounced desegregation and civil rights for blacks, and approved of repression of any demonstrators
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What effect did the Voting Rights Act have on black voting power outside the south?
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A tremendous effect, as blacks tried to vote to demonstrate new political power and voice
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How did Ronald Reagan's election affect African Americans?
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It affected them badly- Reagan turned away from broadening Civil Rights advances and opportunities
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Which of the following was not a program adopted by the Reagan and Bush (Sr.) administrations that had a negative effect on blacks?
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What is affirmative action?
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Policy to remedy historic discrimination in employment and education for minorities
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what significant first did Ronald Browne achieve?
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He became the first black to run for the presidency
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Who became the president of South Africa al least partially as a result of the antiapartheid movement in the United States?
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Nelson Mandela
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How did blacks feel about Clinton?
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They warmly welcomed his candidacy against Bush, and felt that he was the best president since Lyndon Johnson regarding black rights
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Regarding health around the turn of the twenty-first century
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All of theses answers are correct
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Why have some black criticized \"gangsta\" rap?
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Its lyrics are often anti-women, violent, and offensive
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Controversial radio talk show host Don Imus offended the African- American members of which university's women's basketball team?
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Rutgers
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What institution continued to be at the center of black life during the late twentieth century?
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churches
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Martin Luther King Jr. said that \"Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America\"
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True
