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Question #1
Determined to secure jobs for black workers in the defense industries, __________ proposed that African Americans stage a massive march on Washington in 1941.
A.   Ralph Bunche
B.   A. Philip Randolph
C.   Walter White
D.   T. Arnold Hill
Question #2
To counter negative publicity after a racial incident, FDR appointed the dean of Howard Law School, __________, to an advisory role in the Pentagon.
A.   Charles Houston
B.   Thurgood Marshall
C.   William Hastie
D.   Ralph Bunche
Question #3
In early 1942, the Pittsburgh Courier launched the __________ to push the nation to live up to the democratic principles it expressed in the 1941 Atlantic Charter.
A.   Jim Crow Must Go Campaign
B.   earliest effort to win desegregation of the military
C.   Double V Campaign
D.   Stop Racism Now Campaign
Question #4
A. Philip Randolph hinted that _________ and challenges to the draft might be necessary to win civil rights for African Americans.
A.   civil disobedience
B.   in support of the Allied Powers
C.   in support of the Axis Powers
D.   on military bases
Question #5
When black film star Lena Horne noticed German POWs were seated in front of black soldiers for her performance at Fort Riley in Kansas, she __________.
A.   left the stage to sing for her black fans in the rear
B.   refused to perform
C.   sued the military for racial discrimination
D.   sang songs especially for them
Question #6
In 1943, Pauli Murray published an article called “Negros Are Fed Up” that __________.
A.   rejected back-to-Africa ideology and called for immediate integration
B.   called for advanced legal training for African American women
C.   predicted further violent riots due to discrimination in American cities
D.   asked Americans not to forget the struggle for improved educational standards at home
Question #7
In the case __________, the Supreme Court ruled that racially exclusive “white primaries” violated the Fifteenth Amendment.
A.   Plessy v. Ferguson
B.   Brown v. Board of Education
C.   Shelley v. Kraemer
D.   Smith v. Allwright
Question #8
The author who, in 1944, argued that America’s race problem was solvable if white Americans would acknowledge the contradictions between the treatment of blacks and American ideals was __________.
A.   E. Franklin Frazier
B.   Charles S. Johnson
C.   Gunnar Myrdal
D.   Ralph Bunche
Question #9
The Harvard-trained historian who published a pioneering textbook on African American history was __________.
A.   C. Vann Woodward
B.   John Hope Franklin
C.   Robert C. Weaver
D.   U.B. Phillips
Question #10
The former academic who became a State Department advisor on Africa as well as a delegate to the founding convention of the United Nations was __________.
A.   Mary McLeod Bethune
B.   W. E. B. Du Bois
C.   Walter White
D.   Ralph Bunche

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