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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Radical Interracialists.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By six.
(b) By two.
(c) By four.
(d) By three.

2. What did Lottie Wilson Jackson not want Black women to be compelled to ride in?
(a) Third Class.
(b) Luggage cars.
(c) Smoking cars.
(d) "Colored cars."

3. In what year was the first segregated YWCA chartered in Ohio?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1906.

4. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?
(a) Madra Biship.
(b) Sandra Bruns.
(c) Theresa Singer.
(d) Eva Bowles.

5. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?
(a) Lugenia Hope.
(b) Mary Jackson.
(c) Elizabeth Ross Haynes.
(d) Lucy C. Laney.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?

2. What Black poet's work was entered into "The Congressional Record" by Senator Henry Lodge?

3. How many Black branches of the YWCA were there by 1919?

4. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?

5. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?

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