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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is commonly known as the speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) One Day.
(b) All Men Are Created Equal.
(c) I Have a Dream.
(d) In the Eyes of God.

2. What was the name of the city that burned?
(a) Winston-Salem.
(b) Wilmington.
(c) Raleigh.
(d) Charlotte.

3. Who was one of the staunch liberals that permitted a drastic change in the Southern newspapers?
(a) Kimble.
(b) Darning.
(c) McGill.
(d) Irving.

4. Many communities placed which kind of restriction on their residents to keep their neighborhoods segregated?
(a) Deed.
(b) Income.
(c) Rental.
(d) Transportation.

5. People were careful to note the impact of the post-war struggle between democracy and _______.
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two states were controlled by members of the KKK at this time?

2. Who was the president of the Atlanta School Board in 1970?

3. What devastating period in history also assisted in easing racial tensions?

4. An attempt was made to save the Supreme Court from having to try cases involving the school integration plan. Who was charged with handling the court cases?

5. Which of the following was not a word used to describe the downtrodden state of many of the supporters of racial equality?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the occurrence of World War I benefit the Negro?

2. What event precipitated the end of public school segregation? In what year did the event take place?

3. What is considered to be the key year in the Civil Rights Movement? What non-violent protest action came into popularity?

4. Resistance toward integration in Southern schools began to wane after what event? Which states refused to follow suit?

5. What happened that caused the people opposed to segregation to back down?

6. What happened to many of the people that did not go to fight in World War I?

7. How did racial tensions increase at the end of World War I?

8. What group of states announced that it would integrate their schools? What was the opinion of the school systems in the Deep South regarding the time line?

9. To what level did Southern segregation rise to by 1915?

10. What major action taken in Arkansas caused a national uproar? What happened as a result of the actions?

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