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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?
2. Signed by 101 members of Congress in the Deep South, what document claimed that the Supreme Court violated state’s rights with integration laws?
3. How many African Americans were on the jury after the 1999 Texas drug raid?
4. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?
5. William Bradford Reynold, Assistant General Attorney for civil right under Reagan, worked to dismantle what final alternative to desegregate schools?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did Brown v. Board of Education pass? What did it declare? What prominent attorney backed this legislation and why?
2. After Brown, how did some Southern states attempt to weaken the NAACP’s impact?
3. How did communism become intertwined with school integration and Brown?
4. What was the Black Panther Party? When was it formed and what made it different from the previous methods of the civil rights movement?
5. 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?
6. Describe The Gray Commission Plan.
7. Which ruling demanded that Brown must be obeyed? What did states do subsequently to avoid integrating?
8. What was the history of discriminatory practices in regards to African Americans and the vote prior to the Voting Rights Act?
9. What was the civil rights movement?
10. Describe the event that led to the Voting Rights Act.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One goal of this book is to introduce the read to the history of African American discrimination in the United States. Did Anderson succeed in this goal? How might having this knowledge change the way people act toward one another?
Essay Topic 2
What is Anderson’s underlying thesis? How does she support her argument?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the Reagan administration’s war on drugs discussed in Chapter 4. How does Anderson portray the events? What examples from White Rage can you use to show Anderson’s opinion on the events?
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