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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Arkansas Congressman believed that school desegregation cases were based on the work of communists?
(a) James O. Eastland.
(b) Ezekiel Gathings.
(c) Franklin Frazier.
(d) Eugene Cook.

2. Senator Garland Gray’s Plan would require Virginia to spend how much money for every 1% of private school students?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 1,000.

3. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) His bank account.
(c) The Police Department.
(d) Private education.

4. Which attorney argued in favor of Brown v. Board?
(a) Marshal Thomas.
(b) Strom Thurman.
(c) Thurgood Marshall.
(d) Marshall Thurman.

5. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?
(a) Factory.
(b) Government.
(c) Hospitality.
(d) Teaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anderson, what happened to Brown after the signing the Southern Manifesto?

2. What is the title of Chapter 4?

3. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?

4. Which national organization does Anderson name as supporting the civil rights movement at the start of Chapter 4?

5. What “top secret” report “detailed America’s descent into a second-class power”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did communism become intertwined with school integration and Brown?

2. After Brown, how did some Southern states attempt to weaken the NAACP’s impact?

3. What events led to the Civil Rights Act?

4. When did Brown v. Board of Education pass? What did it declare? What prominent attorney backed this legislation and why?

5. Describe The Perrow Plan.

6. What Russian event sparked Americans to reevaluate their education system? Who was President at this time and how did he react?

7. Which ruling demanded that Brown must be obeyed? What did states do subsequently to avoid integrating?

8. Describe The Gray Commission Plan.

9. Describe how Anderson explains the Reagan administration's “drug crisis.” How did it begin and what unethical things were done?

10. Describe what happened in Tulia, Texas in 1999. Who was involved? Why was it controversial?

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