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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first important civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of what year?

2. Where was Stokely Carmicheal born?

3. What does CORE stand for?

4. When did The Cosby Show premier?

5. Who proposed the redistribution of 400 million acres owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of southerners be redistributed in September of 1865?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did the Black Power movement emerge and what did it hope to achieve?

2. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. What was the significance of the release of the Human Genome Project results in 2000?

4. Who was Franz Boas and what did he present at the Atlanta University Commencement Address that shocked his audience?

5. When did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place and what were its impacts?

6. What was the mission of the National Associatoin of Colored Women and when was this organization formed?

7. What were the impacts of the War on Drugs on the racist issues in America?

8. How had W. E. B. Du Bois' views changed by 1933? Why?

9. How did the question of race in America change after World War II and during the Cold War?

10. How did the issues of race change after Lincoln's assassination?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the life, career, and works of Angela Davis. When and where was Davis born? How did this setting influence Davis's later life and career? What were the inciting moments that motivated Davis as an activist?

Essay Topic 2

What were the impacts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What backlash came with the act? How did the act influence the Black vote? What powers were given to enforce the act?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the various racist stereotypes that emerged regarding Black Americans during the Enlightenment era. In what ways were Blacks demeaned and exploited? To what means? How did this impact racial thought?

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