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By 1921, how many branches did the NAACP have? |
| | A) | 12 |
| | B) | about 125 |
| | C) | more than 300 |
| | D) | more than 400 |
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What Supreme Court decision declared, in 1915, that the grandfather clauses in the Maryland and Oklahoma constitutions were in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment? |
| | A) | Guinn v. United States |
| | B) | Buchanan v. Warley |
| | C) | Moore v. Dempsey |
| | D) | Nixon v. Herndon |
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What best describes the southern Progressive movement? |
| | A) | surprisingly committed to black progress |
| | B) | avowedly racist |
| | C) | committed to black progress only when it was politically expedient |
| | D) | committed to black progress only when there was a national audience |
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What, initially, did many black leaders think of Woodrow Wilson when he was running for president? |
| | A) | They felt sure he would follow in the footsteps of Roosevelt and Taft and do nothing to assist blacks. |
| | B) | They hoped he would bring change and they supported him. |
| | C) | They were cautiously optimistic, but only in private. |
| | D) | They knew, from his statements and actions as a candidate, that he was a virulent racist. |
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As president, Woodrow Wilson used an executive order to |
| | A) | segregate eating and restroom facilities for black federal employees. |
| | B) | make interracial marriage illegal. |
| | C) | ban all immigrants of African descent. |
| | D) | ban blacks from becoming military officers. |
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What film, that glorified the Ku Klux Klan and told a completely distorted story of Reconstruction, did President Wilson (who was a historian) admire so much he referred to it as "history writ in lightning"? |
| | A) | The Clansman |
| | B) | b. Birth of a Nation |
| | C) | Modern Times |
| | D) | The Leopard's Spots |
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Which of the following was NOT among the goals established at the Amenia Conference, called by Joel Spingarn in 1916? |
| | A) | to work for enfranchisement |
| | B) | to work for the abolition of lynching |
| | C) | to work for women's rights |
| | D) | to work for the enforcement of civil rights laws |
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Which of the following best describes the Ku Klux Klan by the 1920s? |
| | A) | It had spread throughout the South and was making inroads in the West. |
| | B) | It had almost 50,000 members. |
| | C) | It assumed a semi-official role in many communities. |
| | D) | Though it limited its membership to "white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants," it focused its terrorist efforts exclusively on African Americans. |
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Why was the summer of 1919 termed the "Red Summer" by James Weldon Johnson? |
| | A) | because of the bloodshed in the streets resulting from rioting |
| | B) | because of the hunt for "communists" that seemed to fascinate the nation |
| | C) | because of the immense heat, which undoubtedly contributed to the riots |
| | D) | because of the "boiling point" that African Americans reached in the midst of the riots |
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Which group of African Americans was the special target of the Ku Klux Klan in the years immediately following the war? |
| | A) | black women |
| | B) | white men who married or were seen publicly dating black women |
| | C) | black soldiers |
| | D) | black business owners |
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Where was the most serious racial outbreak in the Red Summer of 1919? |
| | A) | Longview, Texas |
| | B) | Chicago, Illinois |
| | C) | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| | D) | Omaha, Nebraska |
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What was the location of the 1919 race riot that resulted in the case of Moore v. Dempsey, which came before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1923 because the NAACP argued that blacks sentenced to death for their actions had not received a fair trial? |
| | A) | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| | B) | Elaine, Arkansas |
| | C) | Omaha, Nebraska |
| | D) | Chicago, Illinois |
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What predominantly black Florida town was basically wiped off the map by a white mob in 1923 to such a degree that no black survivor even spoke of it until the early 1980s? |
| | A) | Elaine |
| | B) | Rosewood |
| | C) | Ellenwood |
| | D) | Fannin |
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What city saw white mob violence in 1925 that practically destroyed the family of black physician Ossian H. Sweet and caused irreparable harm to race relations there? |
| | A) | Chicago |
| | B) | Atlanta |
| | C) | Boston |
| | D) | Detroit |
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Which of the following was NOT among the suspected causes of "outside agitation" that many white Americans believed had influenced black Americans who fought against the racism of the era? |
| | A) | the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia |
| | B) | the experience of black soldiers in France during the war |
| | C) | the attempted unionization of black workers |
| | D) | the influence of the Socialist Party of America |
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What NAACP member took advantage of his light skin to "pass" for white in order to investigate lynching, reporting his findings in The Crisis and his book, Rope and Faggot, A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929)? |
| | A) | James Weldon Johnson |
| | B) | Walter White |
| | C) | Charles Evans Hughes |
| | D) | Claude McKay |
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When did the NAACP take its first step toward securing passage of a federal antilynching law? |
| | A) | 1917 |
| | B) | 1918 |
| | C) | 1919 |
| | D) | 1920 |
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Southern blacks protested their situation in America in the early twentieth century in many ways. What does the text identify as the most "consequential and long-lasting"? |
| | A) | They simply left the South. |
| | B) | They quietly sent money to the NAACP, risking their lives. |
| | C) | They did whatever was necessary to secure better educations for their children than they had received. |
| | D) | They used whatever organization was at hand (church, mutual aid society, etc.) to make their stories known. |
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Approximately how many migrants from large and small Caribbean islands entered the U.S. between 1899 and 1937, a flow that peaked in 1924? |
| | A) | 35,000 |
| | B) | 85,000 |
| | C) | 140,000 |
| | D) | 163,000 |
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What Afro-Caribbean immigrant from Puerto Rico spoke multiple languages, worked on Wall Street for more than two decades, and amassed one of the largest collection of books, documents, and artifacts related to people of African descent? |
| | A) | Winston James |
| | B) | Hubert Harrison |
| | C) | Arthur Alfonso Schomburg |
| | D) | Richard B. Moore |
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By 1930, what percentage of the black population of Harlem was of Caribbean origin? |
| | A) | 8 |
| | B) | 12 |
| | C) | 15 |
| | D) | 25 |
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What black leader criticized the NAACP as elitist and moderate, supported the International Workers of the World, criticized Du Bois for being an "Old-Style Negro" in 1919, and became head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids? |
| | A) | A. Philip Randolph |
| | B) | Marcus Garvey |
| | C) | Hubert Harrison |
| | D) | Cyril Biggs |
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What was the name of Marcus Garvey's widely popular organization that exalted everything black and appealed more to working-class blacks than the NAACP had done? |
| | A) | the Universal Negro Improvement Association |
| | B) | the Committee for Interracial Cooperation |
| | C) | Black Power |
| | D) | Friends of Negro Freedom |
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What finally brought about Marcus Garvey's demise as a black leader? |
| | A) | his meeting with a Ku Klux Klan representative |
| | B) | his outspoken opposition to the NAACP |
| | C) | his very public feud with Carter Woodson |
| | D) | his conviction in relation to a shipping line, which resulted in his imprisonment and eventual deportation |
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Mary B. Talber, and Maria Baldwin were all |
| | A) | famous black women writers who wrote both fiction and nonfiction, all with the goal of "advancing the race." |
| | B) | New Negro leaders and among the "Founding Forty" members of the NAACP. |
| | C) | famous women whose names were synonymous with antilynching campaigns. |
| | D) | women who gave up their membership in the NAACP when the organization refused to make women's rights a priority on its agenda. |
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Which of the following best describes black women's fight for women's suffrage and African American rights? |
| | A) | The lack of support from W. E. B. Du Bois made NAACP endorsement of women's suffrage impossible. |
| | B) | Black women worked better at the national level with white women's clubs than they did at the local level. |
| | C) | The National American Woman Suffrage Association requested that two respected black suffragists suspend their membership applications until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which was indicative of white women's suffrage organizations' capitulation to racism. |
| | D) | White suffragists refused to endorse the Susan B. Anthony Amendment unless it explicitly enfranchised all women, regardless of race, greatly enhancing black women's power as suffragists. |
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What black woman mobilized black women voters in Chicago soon after the state of Illinois granted women the right to vote in 1913? |
| | A) | Ida B. Wells |
| | B) | Hallie Q. Brown |
| | C) | Nannie Burroughs |
| | D) | Anna Julia Cooper |
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What woman was enlisted by the Republican National Committee in 1924 to lead a voter drive among black women? |
| | A) | Nannie Burroughs |
| | B) | Josephine Ruffin |
| | C) | Hallie Q. Brown |
| | D) | Anna Julia Cooper |
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What African nation became a powerful symbol of contemporary black resistance because it was the only African nation to thwart European advances by defeating the Italian army in 1896? |
| | A) | Egypt |
| | B) | Ethiopia |
| | C) | Sudan |
| | D) | Congo |
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How did Marcus Garvey view the role of women, in the UNIA and in life generally? |
| | A) | He spoke nostalgically of a time when women were in their traditional roles, being protected by black men, and expected them to play a similar role in the UNIA. |
| | B) | He actively encouraged black women to take up the cause of the "New Negro" and many women, including both his first and second wives, helped in positions within the UNIA. |
| | C) | He was ambivalent about women; their role was relatively unimportant to him. |
| | D) | He banned women from the UNIA, believing they had absolutely nothing to offer. |
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