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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the agreement reached between the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP and the Atlanta School Board?

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

3. How many cases eventually backed up, forcing the Supreme Court to step in?

4. What was a common name used to describe black neighborhoods?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Name some of the reasons for the group to ease back on their efforts.

4. How did the Jim Crow laws change beginning in 1920?

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

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

7. What common enemy helped to ease racial tensions? What was the common goal? Who supported the goal?

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

9. What was the message given to the Negroes from white industrialists? How did it affect nationwide racism?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose and describe one of the major cities in the south in the year 1877. Include the social, political, economical and criminal atmospheres. Also discuss the city's culture at that time, including music and other entertainment.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss in detail the 1956 Republican and Democratic political conventions. How were the main issues regarding racism and segregation addressed? Which party was the most vocal about the issues at hand? What was happening with school integration at that point? Which party was first to step up to support federal law to integrate southern schools?

Essay Topic 3

The author talks about blacks leaving white churches in order to form their own. One of the most famous Southern black churches was the AME Church. What is the AME Church? Describe the church, its founders, mission, purpose and actions. Where was the church based? How many affiliates were there? How was the church affiliated with the black community? Does the church still exist?

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