History 1530 - History of African Americans Since 1877 » Summer 2021 » Chapter 17 Review 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.   Kenneth Clark
B.   Thurgood Marshall
C.   Ralph Bunche
D.   J. Waties Waring
Question #2
The NAACP attorney who led the charge on the Brown case was ____________.
A.   George W. McLaurin
B.   Charles Houston
C.   Pauli Murray
D.   Thurgood Marshall
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.   a belief in a nineteenth-century conception of “Ethiopianism”
C.   a sense for the need to move gradually toward desegregation
D.   an advanced degree in theology
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.   Mamie Bradley
B.   Emmett Till
C.   George Lee
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.   Rosa Parks
B.   Jo Ann Robinson
C.   Claudette Colvin
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.   E. D. Nixon
B.   Walter Robinson
C.   Ralph Abernathy
D.   Fred Gray
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.   Bayard Rustin
C.   A. Philip Randolph
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.   Southern Christian Leadership Conference
B.   Fellowship of Reconciliation
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.   John Lewis
C.   Fred Shuttlesworth
D.   Ralph Abernathy
Question #10
The playwright who wrote Raisin in the Sun was __________.
A.   James Baldwin
B.   Lorraine Hansberry
C.   Ella Baker
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.   John Lewis
C.   Fannie Lou Hamer
D.   Ella Baker

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