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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.
Ralph Bunche
B.
Thurgood Marshall
C.
J. Waties Waring
D.
Kenneth Clark
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.
a sense for the need to move gradually toward desegregation
B.
an advanced degree in theology
C.
a belief in the Social Gospel, which stressed the need for justice as well as salvation
D.
a belief in a nineteenth-century conception of “Ethiopianism”
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.
Claudette Colvin
B.
George Lee
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.
Jo Ann Robinson
B.
Septima Clark
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.
E. D. Nixon
B.
Fred Gray
C.
Walter Robinson
D.
Ralph Abernathy
Question #7
Initially, Martin Luther King, Jr., was somewhat skeptical about the nonviolent strategy of Mahatma Gandhi until the arrival of __________.
A.
A. Philip Randolph
B.
Bayard Rustin
C.
Ralph Abernathy
D.
James Forman
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.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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.
John Lewis
C.
Ralph Abernathy
D.
James Bevel
Question #10
The playwright who wrote Raisin in the Sun was __________.
A.
Ella Baker
B.
James Baldwin
C.
Lorraine Hansberry
D.
Langston Hughes
Question #11
In 1960, SCLC organizer __________ helped to channel student activism into a new civil rights organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
A.
James Forman
B.
Ella Baker
C.
Fannie Lou Hamer
D.
John Lewis
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