History 1530 - History of African Americans Since 1877 » Summer 2020 » Chapter 17 Quiz

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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.   Thurgood Marshall
C.   Ralph Bunche
D.   Kenneth Clark
Question #2
The NAACP attorney who led the charge on the Brown case was ____________.
A.   Thurgood Marshall
B.   Charles Houston
C.   Pauli Murray
D.   George W. McLaurin
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.   a belief in the Social Gospel, which stressed the need for justice as well as salvation
B.   an advanced degree in theology
C.   a belief in a nineteenth-century conception of “Ethiopianism”
D.   a sense for the need to move gradually toward desegregation
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.   George Lee
B.   Claudette Colvin
C.   Mamie Bradley
D.   Emmett Till
Question #5
The activist and educator who was the head of Highlander Folk School’s innovative civil rights education project was __________.
A.   Septima Clark
B.   Jo Ann Robinson
C.   Rosa Parks
D.   Claudette Colvin
Question #6
The Pullman porter and chairman of the NAACP local in Montgomery who was instrumental in mobilizing resistance to segregation was __________.
A.   Walter Robinson
B.   Fred Gray
C.   Ralph Abernathy
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.   Ralph Abernathy
B.   James Forman
C.   A. Philip Randolph
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.   Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
B.   Southern Christian Leadership Conference
C.   Fellowship of Reconciliation
D.   Congress of Racial Equality
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.   Fred Shuttlesworth
B.   Ralph Abernathy
C.   James Bevel
D.   John Lewis
Question #10
The playwright who wrote Raisin in the Sun was __________.
A.   Langston Hughes
B.   James Baldwin
C.   Ella Baker
D.   Lorraine Hansberry
Question #11
In 1960, SCLC organizer __________ helped to channel student activism into a new civil rights organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
A.   Fannie Lou Hamer
B.   John Lewis
C.   Ella Baker
D.   James Forman

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