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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The objective of the White Citizens Council that sprang up throughout the South was to do what?
(a) Relocate Blacks.
(b) Destroy Brown v. Board.
(c) Integrate the South.
(d) Reinstate slavery.

2. Which tax supports public school education?
(a) Excise.
(b) Property.
(c) Education.
(d) Income.

3. Following Brown v. Board, great pains were taken to stop Blacks from doing what?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Driving.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Voting.

4. During the Civil Rights Era, Black Americans began to see what?
(a) Limited job opportunities and poor quality education.
(b) Expanded job opportunities and better education.
(c) Better education, but limited job opportunities.
(d) Expanded job opportunities, but not better education.

5. According to Anderson, what happened to Brown after the signing the Southern Manifesto?
(a) It collapsed.
(b) It evolved.
(c) It educated.
(d) It thrived.

6. What was one method used to integrate schools?
(a) Flying.
(b) Busing.
(c) Biking.
(d) Busking.

7. Richard Conley said what agency had no intention of enforcing Brown?
(a) The Department of Education.
(b) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(c) The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
(d) The Department of Child Welfare.

8. When the Fourth Circuit Ruled that schools must integrate by 1959, county supervisors did what to divert money from public schools?
(a) Abolished the property tax.
(b) Increased income tax.
(c) Reduced income tax.
(d) Increased property tax.

9. In 1949, what governor proposed an amendment that would send money to private white schools and get rid of public schools?
(a) Carol Anderson.
(b) Plessy Ferguson.
(c) Herman Melville.
(d) Herman Talmage.

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

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

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

13. In which decade did the civil rights movement begin?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1960s.

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

15. Which law required equal education opportunity for all regardless of race?
(a) Shelley v. Kraemer.
(b) Blue v. The Department of Education.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Sweet v. Detroit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which President continued Nixon’s work of rolling back civil rights?

2. What organizing founded in 1966 believed in self-defense rather than non-violence?

3. William Bradford Reynold, Assistant General Attorney for civil right under Reagan, worked to dismantle what final alternative to desegregate schools?

4. Rather than being overtly racist, Richard Nixon and George Wallace began to use what?

5. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?

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