Question 1
0 out of 1.5 points
As lawyers in the 1930s and 1940s, Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton
Houston adopted all of the following tactics EXCEPT
Selected Answer:
embracing the lawyer's role as social engineer.
Response Feedback: incorrect
Question 2
1.5 out of 1.5 points
Early legal blows were struck against Jim Crow in cases involving Donald Gaines
Murray, Ada Sipuel, and George W. McLaurin, all of whom successfully demanded
Selected
Answer:
that they be allowed greater and more equal access to graduate
schooling.
Response Feedback: correct
Question 3
1.5 out of 1.5 points
Which president desegregated the armed forces and issued an executive order
requiring fair employment in the federal service?
Selected Answer: Harry S Truman
Response Feedback: correct
Question 4
Needs Grading
What Supreme Court case did Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas overturn in 1954?
Selected Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
Response Feedback: [None Given]
Question 5
1.5 out of 1.5 points
How did public schools in the North differ from those in the South?
Selected
Answer:
Most northern states maintained segregated elementary schools,
though a number had integrated high schools or provided separate
but equal high schools to black students.
Response Feedback: correct
Question 6
1.5 out of 1.5 points
Which later poet laureate of the United States won a Pulitzer Prize for the
novel Annie Allen in 1950?
Selected Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks
Response Feedback: correct
Question 7
1.5 out of 1.5 points
Which scholar, the second black man to receive a doctorate in history from
Harvard University, is known today as the Father of Black History?
Selected Answer: Carter G. Woodson
Response Feedback: correct
Question 8
1.5 out of 1.5 points
The White Citizens' Councils which sprang up in many southern states were
formed primarily with which goal in mind?
Selected Answer:
blocking the integration of public schools
Response Feedback: correct
Whose
Black Boy
and
Uncle Tom's Children
made him one of the most successful
black authors of the 1940s?
Selected Answer:
Richard Wright
Response Feedback: correct
Question 9
1.5 out of 1.5 points
