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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.
J. Waties Waring
C.
Kenneth Clark
D.
Thurgood Marshall
Question #2
The NAACP attorney who led the charge on the Brown case was ____________.
A.
George W. McLaurin
B.
Pauli Murray
C.
Thurgood Marshall
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 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.
George Lee
B.
Emmett Till
C.
Claudette Colvin
D.
Mamie Bradley
Question #5
The activist and educator who was the head of Highlander Folk School’s innovative civil rights education project was __________.
A.
Claudette Colvin
B.
Septima Clark
C.
Jo Ann Robinson
D.
Rosa Parks
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.
Fred Gray
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.
A. Philip Randolph
C.
Bayard Rustin
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.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
C.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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.
James Bevel
B.
Ralph Abernathy
C.
Fred Shuttlesworth
D.
John Lewis
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.
John Lewis
B.
Fannie Lou Hamer
C.
Ella Baker
D.
James Forman
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