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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.
Ralph Bunche
B.
Walter White
C.
T. Arnold Hill
D.
A. Philip Randolph
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.
Ralph Bunche
C.
Charles Houston
D.
Thurgood Marshall
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.
Double V Campaign
B.
earliest effort to win desegregation of the military
C.
Stop Racism Now Campaign
D.
Jim Crow Must Go Campaign
Question #4
A. Philip Randolph hinted that _________ and challenges to the draft might be necessary to win civil rights for African Americans.
A.
civil disobedience
B.
in support of the Allied Powers
C.
on military bases
D.
in support of the Axis Powers
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.
sang songs especially for them
B.
sued the military for racial discrimination
C.
refused to perform
D.
left the stage to sing for her black fans in the rear
Question #6
In 1943, Pauli Murray published an article called “Negros Are Fed Up” that __________.
A.
predicted further violent riots due to discrimination in American cities
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.
called for advanced legal training for African American women
Question #7
In the case __________, the Supreme Court ruled that racially exclusive “white primaries” violated the Fifteenth Amendment.
A.
Plessy v. Ferguson
B.
Smith v. Allwright
C.
Brown v. Board of Education
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.
Charles S. Johnson
B.
E. Franklin Frazier
C.
Gunnar Myrdal
D.
Ralph Bunche
Question #9
The Harvard-trained historian who published a pioneering textbook on African American history was __________.
A.
Robert C. Weaver
B.
John Hope Franklin
C.
C. Vann Woodward
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.
Ralph Bunche
B.
W. E. B. Du Bois
C.
Mary McLeod Bethune
D.
Walter White
Question #11
President Harry Truman’s UN policies on colonization and racial discrimination were initially shaped by __________.
A.
the American experience in World War II
B.
worsening relations with the Soviet Union
C.
his unofficial advisors on race issues
D.
American race relations at home
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