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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What group worked to overturn Jim Crow laws in the 1930s?
(a) YMCA.
(b) NAACP.
(c) AARP.
(d) CIA.

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

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

5. During the time of the Civil Rights Act, the President tried to redefine racism as an individual what?
(a) Inclination.
(b) Aberration.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Act.

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

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

8. Which Alabama Governor received a congratulatory telegram after blocking a Black student’s acceptance to a Tuscaloosa University?
(a) George Walters.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) George Washington.
(d) George Jefferson.

9. Some argued that Brown stemmed from what type of manipulation?
(a) Republican.
(b) Communist.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Congressional.

10. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?
(a) His bank account.
(b) Hospitals.
(c) The Police Department.
(d) Private education.

11. In 1957, Milwaukee instituted busing, but kept Blacks and whites in separate what?
(a) Hallways.
(b) Classrooms.
(c) Cafeterias.
(d) Rows.

12. Who was Deputy Director of the National Security Council under Reagan?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Oliver Stone.
(c) Oliver North.
(d) Jamie Oliver.

13. Though Representative Elliot believed the U.S. had to work toward better education, he did not believe in what?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Integration.
(c) Private schools.
(d) Freedom of choice.

14. What organizing founded in 1966 believed in self-defense rather than non-violence?
(a) NAACP.
(b) The Black Panther Party.
(c) The KKK.
(d) The Civil Rights Committee.

15. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?
(a) 10.
(b) 150.
(c) 28.
(d) 0.

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

3. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?

4. Profits from cocaine trafficked by the CIA to California was used to arm whom?

5. Why were sentences for crack and cocaine thought to racially discriminate?

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