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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 President continued Nixon’s work of rolling back civil rights?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Abe Lincoln.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

2. The NAACP was not allowed to resume operations in Alabama until what year?
(a) 1956.
(b) 2014.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1999.

3. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?
(a) The Virginia Education Commission.
(b) The Gray Commission.
(c) The Garland initiative.
(d) The Senatorial Educational Plan Against School Integration.

4. Which law required equal education opportunity for all regardless of race?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Shelley v. Kraemer.
(c) Sweet v. Detroit.
(d) Blue v. The Department of Education.

5. What strategy did Black Americans adopt during the civil rights movement?
(a) Migration.
(b) Stop and frisk.
(c) Violence.
(d) Nonviolence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Delaware in the 1930’s, Black Americans completed how many years of schooling on average?

2. Which tax supports public school education?

3. In what year was Brown v. Board of Education passed?

4. In which town in Texas did the controversial 1999 drug raid take place?

5. As the nation began to lag behind because of lack of education, who did some Southerners placed blame?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the ways in which the Reagan administration continued to roll back civil rights, according to Anderson. What examples does Anderson use in regards to education?

3. What was the Southern Manifesto, also called the Declaration of Constitutional Principles? How many members of Congress signed it and what was its effect on Brown?

4. Describe the event that led to the Voting Rights Act.

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

6. What was the NAACP? What was it trying to do at the start of Chapter 3, according to Anderson?

7. In what ways did those who disagreed with Brown try to crush it?

8. What events led to the Civil Rights Act?

9. How did Nixon and others during his presidency try to redefine racism?

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

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