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

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

3. According to Anderson, an improvement to Black lives resulted in what from some whites?
(a) Love.
(b) Trust.
(c) Opposition.
(d) Friendship.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The southern closure of school affected whom?

3. Which law required equal education opportunity for all regardless of race?

4. What was one method used to integrate schools?

5. Which Arkansas Congressman believed that school desegregation cases were based on the work of communists?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Southern Manifesto, also called the Declaration of Constitutional Principles? How many members of Congress signed it and what was its effect on Brown?

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

3. When did Brown v. Board of Education pass? What did it declare? What prominent attorney backed this legislation and why?

4. After Brown, how did some Southern states attempt to weaken the NAACP’s impact?

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

6. Which ruling demanded that Brown must be obeyed? What did states do subsequently to avoid integrating?

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

8. What was the Black Panther Party? When was it formed and what made it different from the previous methods of the civil rights movement?

9. Describe the ways in which the Reagan administration continued to roll back civil rights, according to Anderson. What examples does Anderson use in regards to education?

10. Describe the event that led to the Voting Rights Act.

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