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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. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?

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

3. How many American women were working 1945?

4. What mission in New York, helped women get job-placement, job training, and offered Afro-American history courses?

5. Why did the magazine of the NAACP in 1919 state that Black women felt pride for Black men during the race riots?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mary McLeod Bethune finance the Daytona School for Girls?

2. What change did the Susan B. Anthony Amendment face in regard to the Jones Amendment?

3. What initially was to happen to the monies granted for slum clearance in Daytona Beach?

4. According to Virginia Durr, what were the two ways that the Depression affected people?

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

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

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

8. Why did "Half-Century" in 1922 state that brown skin was more appealing?

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

10. In 1920, what did the YWCA go on record as advocating?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part one of the book was dedicated to Black women "inventing themselves." Discuss in detail the steps that Black women needed to take to invent themselves.

Essay Topic 2

How did Black women impact the issues associated with race? What did they initiate? What progress were they responsible for?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book, Ida B. Wells is discussed in great detail. Discuss Well's accomplishments throughout her time as an activist.

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