African American Studies - FINAL EXAM 2024

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Which Supreme Court decision ruled that separate schools are not equal?

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Sit ins are where activists

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take seats in white sections of segregated lunch counters and refuse to leave unless served.

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Protests where whites and African Americans traveled on interstate buses into the south were known as

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Freedom Rides

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What were laws called that were passed in the South during Reconstruction to limit African-American rights?

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Black Codes

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What was the main purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau, established March 3, 1865?

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It was a relief agency for former slaves that also controlled abandoned plantation lands.

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What impact did Jim Crow laws have on African Americans?

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It kept them segregate from whites in public places.

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In the 1920s, there was a revival of mob violence in South Carolina against African Americans. These racially motivated attacks were called

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lynchings

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What was true about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?

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It was fully comprised of volunteer African-American soldiers.

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On what team did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier in baseball?

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Brooklyn Dodgers

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Who boosted Black nationalism first urging blacks to use armed self-defense and self-help / preservation?

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Malcolm X