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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?
(a) $10.35.
(b) $3.51.
(c) $35.10.
(d) $351.00.

2. As the nation began to lag behind because of lack of education, who did some Southerners placed blame?
(a) White teachers.
(b) White parents.
(c) Black parents.
(d) Black teachers.

3. Rather than being overtly racist, Richard Nixon and George Wallace began to use what?
(a) Racially coded language.
(b) A foreign language.
(c) Telepathy.
(d) Racially charged language.

4. Which attorney argued in favor of Brown v. Board?
(a) Strom Thurman.
(b) Marshall Thurman.
(c) Marshal Thomas.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

5. What powerful force did Blacks use to expose to the world how they have been treated?
(a) The media.
(b) Email campaigns.
(c) Social Media.
(d) The Internet.

6. What landmark Supreme Court case in Arkansas ruled that Brown must be obeyed?
(a) George v. Smith.
(b) Cooper v. Aaron.
(c) Rock v. Little.
(d) Howard v. Walters.

7. Nixon’s appointments to what worked to roll back civil rights successes?
(a) NYPD.
(b) Supreme Court.
(c) Department of Education.
(d) Congress.

8. What strategy did Black Americans adopt during the civil rights movement?
(a) Stop and frisk.
(b) Violence.
(c) Nonviolence.
(d) Migration.

9. What Alabama Congressman took the lead in education reform when he backed the NDEA?
(a) Carl Elliot.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) T.S. Elliot.
(d) Elliot Grossman.

10. Who was president at the start of the Civil Rights Era?
(a) Trump.
(b) Obama.
(c) Reagan.
(d) Nixon.

11. People began to see America’s educational struggles as a direct result of what?
(a) Southern Manifesto.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) Brown v. Board.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

12. Which national organization does Anderson name as supporting the civil rights movement at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) The King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(b) The Confederation of Southern Christian Kings.
(c) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(d) The Leaders of the Southern Christian Association.

13. After the launching of Sputnik, many pointed to America’s failed what?
(a) Military system.
(b) Education system.
(c) Solar system.
(d) Industrial system.

14. What word describes the claim made in the Deep South and Virginia stating they did not have to follow federal laws with which they disagreed?
(a) Interlocution.
(b) Interrogation.
(c) Intergeneration.
(d) Interposition.

15. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?
(a) Government.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Factory.
(d) Hospitality.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Fourth Circuit Ruled that schools must integrate by 1959, county supervisors did what to divert money from public schools?

2. What does HUAC stand for?

3. How many African Americans were on the jury after the 1999 Texas drug raid?

4. During the Civil Rights Era, Black Americans began to see what?

5. Which civil rights leader spoke of his “Dream” in front of 250,000 people on the National Mall?

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