History 1530 - History of African Americans Since 1877 » Summer 2020 » Chapter 16 Quiz

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Question #1
Determined to secure jobs for black workers in the defense industries, __________ proposed that African Americans stage a massive march on Washington in 1941.
A.   A. Philip Randolph
B.   T. Arnold Hill
C.   Ralph Bunche
D.   Walter White
Question #2
To counter negative publicity after a racial incident, FDR appointed the dean of Howard Law School, __________, to an advisory role in the Pentagon.
A.   William Hastie
B.   Thurgood Marshall
C.   Ralph Bunche
D.   Charles Houston
Question #3
In early 1942, the Pittsburgh Courier launched the __________ to push the nation to live up to the democratic principles it expressed in the 1941 Atlantic Charter.
A.   Stop Racism Now Campaign
B.   Double V Campaign
C.   Jim Crow Must Go Campaign
D.   earliest effort to win desegregation of the military
Question #4
A. Philip Randolph hinted that _________ and challenges to the draft might be necessary to win civil rights for African Americans.
A.   in support of the Allied Powers
B.   in support of the Axis Powers
C.   civil disobedience
D.   on military bases
Question #5
When black film star Lena Horne noticed German POWs were seated in front of black soldiers for her performance at Fort Riley in Kansas, she __________.
A.   left the stage to sing for her black fans in the rear
B.   sued the military for racial discrimination
C.   refused to perform
D.   sang songs especially for them
Question #6
In 1943, Pauli Murray published an article called “Negros Are Fed Up” that __________.
A.   called for advanced legal training for African American women
B.   rejected back-to-Africa ideology and called for immediate integration
C.   asked Americans not to forget the struggle for improved educational standards at home
D.   predicted further violent riots due to discrimination in American cities
Question #7
In the case __________, the Supreme Court ruled that racially exclusive “white primaries” violated the Fifteenth Amendment.
A.   Brown v. Board of Education
B.   Smith v. Allwright
C.   Plessy v. Ferguson
D.   Shelley v. Kraemer
Question #8
The author who, in 1944, argued that America’s race problem was solvable if white Americans would acknowledge the contradictions between the treatment of blacks and American ideals was __________.
A.   Gunnar Myrdal
B.   Ralph Bunche
C.   E. Franklin Frazier
D.   Charles S. Johnson
Question #9
The Harvard-trained historian who published a pioneering textbook on African American history was __________.
A.   John Hope Franklin
B.   C. Vann Woodward
C.   Robert C. Weaver
D.   U.B. Phillips
Question #10
The former academic who became a State Department advisor on Africa as well as a delegate to the founding convention of the United Nations was __________.
A.   Walter White
B.   Ralph Bunche
C.   W. E. B. Du Bois
D.   Mary McLeod Bethune
Question #11
President Harry Truman’s UN policies on colonization and racial discrimination were initially shaped by __________.
A.   his unofficial advisors on race issues
B.   the American experience in World War II
C.   worsening relations with the Soviet Union
D.   American race relations at home

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