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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.
J. Waties Waring
D.
Ralph Bunche
Question #2
The NAACP attorney who led the charge on the Brown case was ____________.
A.
George W. McLaurin
B.
Charles Houston
C.
Thurgood Marshall
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 belief in a nineteenth-century conception of “Ethiopianism”
B.
a sense for the need to move gradually toward desegregation
C.
a belief in the Social Gospel, which stressed the need for justice as well as salvation
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.
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.
Jo Ann Robinson
C.
Septima Clark
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.
Fred Gray
B.
Walter Robinson
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.
Bayard Rustin
B.
A. Philip Randolph
C.
James Forman
D.
Ralph Abernathy
Question #8
Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders formed the __________, a new regional organization to sustain the momentum of the Montgomery movement.
A.
Congress of Racial Equality
B.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
C.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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.
Ralph Abernathy
B.
Fred Shuttlesworth
C.
John Lewis
D.
James Bevel
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.
Fannie Lou Hamer
B.
Ella Baker
C.
James Forman
D.
John Lewis
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