Race, Relations, Reform

Multiple Choice

Why did Booker T. Washington call his famous speech at the International Cotton Exposition the "Atlanta Compromise?"

• He believed that blacks needed to accept social and political inequality for the time being, and if blacks would work toward achieving economic equality, then social and political equality would come with time.

• He believed that blacks needed to accept legal segregation for the time being, and work to gain positions in the Georgia General Assembly so that blacks could eventually gain more economic and political equality.

• He believed that blacks and whites should have equal rights, and that in order to get an education and run for office in the Georgia General Assembly to make changes.

• He believed that blacks needed to accept economic inequality for the time being, and if blacks would work toward achieving social and political equality, then economic equality would come with time.

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws in the New South?

• To integrate African Americans into society

• To provide equal opportunities for all citizens

• To segregate and limit the rights of African Americans

• To promote economic growth for all races

Multiple Choice

Plessy vs Furgeson was about a black man who

• was not allowed to vote

• civil rights were denied (14A)

Multiple Choice

Plessy was arrested for sitting in a whites-only ________.

• bus section

• train car

• public park

• restaurant

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision?

• Racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional, but transportation must remain segregated.

• As long as states maintain separate but equal facilities, racial segregation does not violate the constitution.

• Separate but equal facilities are unconstitutional, but the federal government has no ability to intervene.

• The Separate Car Act violates the 14th Amendment. Therefore racial segregation is unconstitutional in all forms.

Multiple Select

What was an effect of the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case?

• racial segregation was ended

• racial segregation was determined legal

• people of color were allowed to vote in all elections

Multiple Choice

to deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship

• Jim Crow Laws

• Separate but Equal

• Anti-Semitism

• Disenfranchisement

Multiple Choice

What was a major publicity factor that lead up to the Race Riot?

• Newspaper headlines including alleged attacks on white women
• Radio broadcasting of the protests downtown
• News channels showed scenes of blacks boycotting the bus system

Multiple Choice

48 hour riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of African-American or Black men attacking white women; several African-Americans or Blacks were killed during the riot.

• Anti-Semitism

• Atlanta Race Riot (1906)

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

• Separate but Equal

Multiple Choice

educator, author, political activist, and orator; promoted the idea that African-Americans or Blacks should pursue economic and educational endeavors before seeking social and political equality.

• Booker T. Washington

• Alonzo Herndon

• Leo Frank

• W.E.B. DuBois

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Why did many civil rights activists disagree with Booker T. Washington’s views of civil rights?

• Washington supported radical, violent actions to encourage political change for African Americans.

• Washington supported working within the current legal and political system to achieve rapid change.

• Washington believed that African Americans were not guaranteed the same rights as whites under the Constitution.

• Washington believed that African Americans should be patient and focus on becoming integral members of society.

Multiple Choice

civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans or Blacks

• Leo Frank

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Alonzo Herndon

Multiple Choice

The NAACP is a:

• Political Party

• an organization that helps poor people and helps citizens receive higher education

• a group of Republican's who help advance right-wing ideologies

• a group that fights to protect equal rights for African Americans

Multiple Choice

How did the views of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington differ?

• DuBois believed African Americans must fight discriminations through any means necessary, including violence, while Washington believed it important to use only peaceful means of protest.

• Washington advocated tolerance of racial discrimination, while DuBois argued that African Americans must demand their civil rights to combat racism.

• DuBois advocated tolerance of racial discrimination, while Washington argued that African Americans must demand their civil rights to combat racism.

• Washington believed African Americans must fight discrimination through any means necessary, including violence, while DuBoise believed it important to use only peaceful means of protest.

Multiple Choice

founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

• Leo Frank

• Alonzo Herndon

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes why Alonzo Herndon is an important figure in Georgia's history?

• African American Entrepreneur

• African American inventor

• African American spokesperson for race relations

• African American political advisor

Multiple Choice

How did Alonzo Herndon try to improve the lives of African Americans in Atlanta?

• by providing employment opportunities for college-educated members of the community

• by funding health education campaigns to improve the well-being of the city’s residents

• by organizing sit-ins and boycotts of Atlanta businesses that refused to serve African Americans

• by working to improve living conditions in the city’s poorest segregated neighborhoods

Multiple Choice

trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan; found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence was later reduced to life due to additional evidence. However, a group of men calling themselves "the Knights of Mary Phagan" took Frank out of his prison cell and lynched him in Marietta

• Leo Frank Case

• Disenfranchisement

• Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

Multiple Choice

Prejudice against Jews

• Jim Crow Laws

• Literacy Test

• Anti-Semitism

• Jim Crow Laws