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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.   Walter White
B.   Ralph Bunche
C.   T. Arnold Hill
D.   A. Philip Randolph
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.   Thurgood Marshall
B.   Charles Houston
C.   Ralph Bunche
D.   William Hastie
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.   Stop Racism Now Campaign
B.   Double V Campaign
C.   earliest effort to win desegregation of the military
D.   Jim Crow Must Go Campaign
Question #4
A. Philip Randolph hinted that _________ and challenges to the draft might be necessary to win civil rights for African Americans.
A.   in support of the Axis Powers
B.   on military bases
C.   in support of the Allied Powers
D.   civil disobedience
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.   sang songs especially for them
C.   sued the military for racial discrimination
D.   refused to perform
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.   asked Americans not to forget the struggle for improved educational standards at home
C.   called for advanced legal training for African American women
D.   predicted further violent riots due to discrimination in American cities
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.   Smith v. Allwright
D.   Shelley v. Kraemer
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.   Ralph Bunche
B.   Charles S. Johnson
C.   Gunnar Myrdal
D.   E. Franklin Frazier
Question #9
The Harvard-trained historian who published a pioneering textbook on African American history was __________.
A.   John Hope Franklin
B.   U.B. Phillips
C.   Robert C. Weaver
D.   C. Vann Woodward
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.   Walter White
C.   W. E. B. Du Bois
D.   Ralph Bunche

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