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.   J. Waties Waring
B.   Ralph Bunche
C.   Thurgood Marshall
D.   Kenneth Clark
Question #2
The NAACP attorney who led the charge on the Brown case was ____________.
A.   Thurgood Marshall
B.   George W. McLaurin
C.   Pauli Murray
D.   Charles Houston
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 a nineteenth-century conception of “Ethiopianism”
B.   a belief in the Social Gospel, which stressed the need for justice as well as salvation
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.   Emmett Till
B.   Mamie Bradley
C.   Claudette Colvin
D.   George Lee
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.   Claudette Colvin
C.   Rosa Parks
D.   Jo Ann Robinson
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.   Walter Robinson
C.   E. D. Nixon
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.   Bayard Rustin
B.   A. Philip Randolph
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.   John Lewis
B.   Fred Shuttlesworth
C.   James Bevel
D.   Ralph Abernathy
Question #10
The playwright who wrote Raisin in the Sun was __________.
A.   James Baldwin
B.   Ella Baker
C.   Langston Hughes
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.   James Forman
D.   Ella Baker

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