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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. In what year did Booker T. Washington die?
2. Who ran unsuccessfully for president of the NACW in 1924?
3. Whom did critics in 1900 state was the author of "the most powerful protest novel . . . with the exception of Ann Perry"?
4. During the 1920s, what rate decreased?
5. In 1937, how many Black woman walked out of the I.N. Vaughn Company because of low wages and hard work?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the South, what did racial antipathy do?
2. What caused a dramatic shift in the role of the woman in the work force in 1941?
3. What accomplishments did the NACW have by 1916?
4. How did Mary McLeod Bethune finance the Daytona School for Girls?
5. Why did "Half-Century" in 1922 state that brown skin was more appealing?
6. In 1920, what did the YWCA go on record as advocating?
7. What did the suffrage campaign represent for Black women?
8. What were the ratio differences between young Black women and young White women over the age of fourteen working?
9. How did the Federal Emergency Relief Administration of the Department of Labor make life harder for Blacks during the Depression?
10. What preparations did Lugenia Burns Hope make for the CIC meeting in Memphis?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many specific acts against Blacks were defined as being the initial reason to start an organization, a woman's initial involvement in the movement, and a call for serious social change. Discuss in depth one of the acts described in the book (in regard to the beginning of a group), the actions that supported the need for the change, who spearheaded the act, and where they took their hopes for the necessary change.
Essay Topic 2
What opposition did Black women face in regard to the men of their own race and culture? Where did these issues arise from? How were the issues solved?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss in detail the problems that Black women faced prior to the creation of laws that bettered treatment of slaves.
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