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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. Gray’s Commission Plan was put into action in what year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1962.

5. After the Supreme Court handed down two rulings requiring schools to reopen, what method of keeping schools segregated was employed?
(a) Education Equity Plan.
(b) Freedom of Education Act.
(c) Freedom of Choice Plan.
(d) The Freedmen’s Bureau.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the time of the Civil Rights Act, the President tried to redefine racism as an individual what?

2. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?

3. What is the title of Chapter 4?

4. In Delaware in the 1930’s, Black Americans completed how many years of schooling on average?

5. Richard Conley said what agency had no intention of enforcing Brown?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the National Defense of Education Act? Why was it written? Name a key player involved in its implementation. Did this person believe in equal education for all?

2. What Russian event sparked Americans to reevaluate their education system? Who was President at this time and how did he react?

3. How did communism become intertwined with school integration and Brown?

4. Describe how Anderson explains the Reagan administration's “drug crisis.” How did it begin and what unethical things were done?

5. How did Nixon and others during his presidency try to redefine racism?

6. Describe what happened in Tulia, Texas in 1999. Who was involved? Why was it controversial?

7. Describe The Perrow Plan.

8. In what ways did those who disagreed with Brown try to crush it?

9. What was the history of discriminatory practices in regards to African Americans and the vote prior to the Voting Rights Act?

10. What events led to the Civil Rights Act?

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