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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.   A. Philip Randolph
B.   Walter White
C.   Ralph Bunche
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.   Thurgood Marshall
B.   William Hastie
C.   Charles Houston
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.   earliest effort to win desegregation of the military
B.   Stop Racism Now Campaign
C.   Double V Campaign
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.   sued the military for racial discrimination
B.   sang songs especially for them
C.   left the stage to sing for her black fans in the rear
D.   refused to perform
Question #6
In 1943, Pauli Murray published an article called “Negros Are Fed Up” that __________.
A.   asked Americans not to forget the struggle for improved educational standards at home
B.   predicted further violent riots due to discrimination in American cities
C.   rejected back-to-Africa ideology and called for immediate integration
D.   called for advanced legal training for African American women
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.   E. Franklin Frazier
B.   Charles S. Johnson
C.   Ralph Bunche
D.   Gunnar Myrdal
Question #9
The Harvard-trained historian who published a pioneering textbook on African American history was __________.
A.   John Hope Franklin
B.   C. Vann Woodward
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.   W. E. B. Du Bois
B.   Ralph Bunche
C.   Mary McLeod Bethune
D.   Walter White

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