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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 and Afterword .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim Crow refer to?
(a) Equal Education Laws.
(b) The head of the NAACP.
(c) Separate but equal laws.
(d) Anti-racist laws.

2. The Council of Conservate Christians (CCC) was the reincarnation of what group from the 1950s?
(a) The WCC.
(b) The YWCA.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The KKK.

3. What magazine, when discussing to the lack of education available for Black Americans, referred to them as our countries most wasted resource?
(a) National Review.
(b) Time.
(c) USA Today.
(d) Atlantic.

4. Which Arkansas Congressman believed that school desegregation cases were based on the work of communists?
(a) James O. Eastland.
(b) Eugene Cook.
(c) Franklin Frazier.
(d) Ezekiel Gathings.

5. Why did The Homestead Act not benefit Black Americans?
(a) They were not interested in owning homes.
(b) They did not need homes.
(c) The did not own homes.
(d) They were not considered citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anderson, an improvement to Black lives resulted in what from some whites?

2. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?

3. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?

4. For the first time in history, in 2008 Black voter turnout was what?

5. Who became the first Black president in 2008?

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