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.   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.   Pauli Murray
B.   George W. McLaurin
C.   Charles Houston
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 sense for the need to move gradually toward desegregation
C.   a belief in a nineteenth-century conception of “Ethiopianism”
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.   Claudette Colvin
C.   Emmett Till
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.   Jo Ann Robinson
B.   Septima Clark
C.   Claudette Colvin
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.   E. D. Nixon
B.   Fred Gray
C.   Ralph Abernathy
D.   Walter Robinson
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.   James Forman
C.   Ralph Abernathy
D.   Bayard Rustin
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.   Langston Hughes
B.   Lorraine Hansberry
C.   James Baldwin
D.   Ella Baker
Question #11
In 1960, SCLC organizer __________ helped to channel student activism into a new civil rights organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
A.   Ella Baker
B.   Fannie Lou Hamer
C.   John Lewis
D.   James Forman

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