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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. The press made headlines accusing blacks of everything from murder to ______.
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Conspiracy.
(d) Bitterness.

2. Despite their actions, _________ were still surpassed in their efforts by black integrationists.
(a) Populists.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Nationalists.
(d) Seperatists.

3. Whose ghost is predicted to haunt a troubled people although he is long dead?
(a) Orville Faubus.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) Jim Crow.

4. According to this group, people tended to separate to fall back on their own:
(a) Species.
(b) Folkways.
(c) Morals.
(d) Independence.

5. Which is not mentioned in the list of things blacks are still being denied?
(a) Right to vote.
(b) Education.
(c) Income equality.
(d) Healthcare.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following was not included in the act as a benefit for Negroes?

3. Many people compared the South to the politics of what other country?

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

5. Who was president when the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education was decided?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened in 1989 regarding the Jim Crow law?

2. What was believed to be the cause of the Second Reconstruction?

3. What was the first major action taken by the NAACP?

4. What event followed the murder of the four young girls in a black church?

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

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

7. What happened to many of the people that did not go to fight in 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. Did either party have a leader that stood up to take a strong stand on integration? What was the call put forth at the 1956 conventions?

10. What happened when the courts finally set up a strict implementation plan? Who was in charge?

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