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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Black Braintrusters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?
(a) Anthony Roberts.
(b) Jefferson Terrell.
(c) Oscar DePriest.
(d) Thomas Paine.

2. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

3. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?
(a) Frankman's Boys School.
(b) Washington Institute.
(c) Du Bois' Boys Institute.
(d) Cookman Institute.

4. What was the name of the sheriff that upheld segregation ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama?
(a) Matthew Stride.
(b) Sam Spint.
(c) Steven McBride.
(d) Eugene Connor.

5. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)
(a) Nashville.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children were in Charlotte Hawkins Brown's family?

2. In 1830, who did Maria Stewart tell that it was their duty to cultivate a pure heart and thirst for knowledge in their children?

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

4. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," how many Black women marched into the White House in 1941?

5. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?

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