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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 NAACP's magazine?

2. How many people, out of the 139 named, were of mixed heritage in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Who's Who of Colored Americans"?

3. In what year was the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court case argued?

4. What was the name of the student that spoke out against the Congressional tongue-lashing a university received for having a book on socialism in it's library?

5. In what state was Mary McLeod Bethune born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What accomplishments did the NACW have by 1916?

2. What did the suffrage campaign represent for Black women?

3. What allowed Eleanor Roosevelt to fully overcome her racial prejudice?

4. What happened to the Daytona School for Girls between 1915 and 1927?

5. In the South, what did racial antipathy do?

6. What questions were Blacks left with in the years following WWI?

7. What two developments changed the image of Black women following WWI?

8. What did Mary McLeod Bethune do at the age of 52 in 1927?

9. How did the Federal Emergency Relief Administration of the Department of Labor make life harder for Blacks during the Depression?

10. What affect did WWI have on Blacks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did mainstream society depict Black women in media? What issues did Black women have with these depictions? What did Black women do to change these media representations?

Essay Topic 2

Many specific acts against Blacks were defined as being the initial reason to start an organization, a woman's initial involvement in the movement, and a call for serious social change. Discuss in depth one of the acts described in the book (in regard to the beginning of a group), the actions that supported the need for the change, who spearheaded the act, and where they took their hopes for the necessary change.

Essay Topic 3

Part two of the book was dedicated to the "new negro" woman. Discuss in detail who the "new negro" was. Why did she have to change? What steps were required for her to become a new woman? What problems did she face as she redefined who she was?

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