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Question #1
The social psychologist whose doll test was used by the NAACP to build its arguments for the desegregation of schools in the South was __________.
A.
J. Waties Waring
B.
Kenneth Clark
C.
Ralph Bunche
D.
Thurgood Marshall
Question #2
The NAACP attorney who led the charge on the Brown case was ____________.
A.
Charles Houston
B.
Thurgood Marshall
C.
George W. McLaurin
D.
Pauli Murray
Question #3
One thing that young ministers like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy had in common with older ministers like Vernon Johns was __________.
A.
an advanced degree in theology
B.
a belief in a nineteenth-century conception of “Ethiopianism”
C.
a sense for the need to move gradually toward desegregation
D.
a belief in the Social Gospel, which stressed the need for justice as well as salvation
Question #4
The 1955 murder in Leflore County, Mississippi, of fourteen-year-old __________ horrified the nation and focused attention on the horrors of southern racism.
A.
Emmett Till
B.
George Lee
C.
Mamie Bradley
D.
Claudette Colvin
Question #5
The activist and educator who was the head of Highlander Folk School’s innovative civil rights education project was __________.
A.
Jo Ann Robinson
B.
Claudette Colvin
C.
Rosa Parks
D.
Septima Clark
Question #6
The Pullman porter and chairman of the NAACP local in Montgomery who was instrumental in mobilizing resistance to segregation was __________.
A.
Ralph Abernathy
B.
Fred Gray
C.
Walter Robinson
D.
E. D. Nixon
Question #7
Initially, Martin Luther King, Jr., was somewhat skeptical about the nonviolent strategy of Mahatma Gandhi until the arrival of __________.
A.
James Forman
B.
A. Philip Randolph
C.
Ralph Abernathy
D.
Bayard Rustin
Question #8
Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders formed the __________, a new regional organization to sustain the momentum of the Montgomery movement.
A.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
B.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
C.
Congress of Racial Equality
D.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Question #9
The Birmingham minister who was beaten with chains by a white mob when he tried to enroll his daughters in an all-white school was __________.
A.
James Bevel
B.
Fred Shuttlesworth
C.
Ralph Abernathy
D.
John Lewis
Question #10
The playwright who wrote Raisin in the Sun was __________.
A.
Ella Baker
B.
Langston Hughes
C.
Lorraine Hansberry
D.
James Baldwin
Question #11
In 1960, SCLC organizer __________ helped to channel student activism into a new civil rights organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
A.
Ella Baker
B.
Fannie Lou Hamer
C.
John Lewis
D.
James Forman
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