Introduction to Black Studies, Fall 2007

1. In Vincent Harding’s prologue to the Civil Rights Reader, an historical accounting provides a basis for understanding the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1883, a Supreme Court decision known as Plessy v. Ferguson established the doctrine of:

a. Separate-but-equal

b. Manifest Destiny

c. Equal Employment

d. Civil Rights

e. None of the above

2. According to Vincent Harding, one of the paradoxes that Blacks faced was that, “in a society permeated by conscious and unconscious white supremacist beliefs and social Darwinist assumptions, (B)lack people needed”:

a. Dedicated White allies

b. Voting Rights

c. Human Rights

d. Better media images

e. All of the above

3. The “hero of New Orleans” (according to Ida B. Wells-Barnett) killed at least five policemen. What was his actual name?

a. Robert Charles

b. Elijah Poole

c. Elijah Muhammad

d. W.D. Fard

e. Ronald Reagan

4. “Africa fever” referred to what issue or condition?

a. HIV/AIDS

b. Malaria

c. Hepatitis

d. Colonialism

e. Emigration

5. The antagonist of The Niagara Movement was:

a. W.E.B. DuBois

b. William Monroe Trotter

c. Marcus Garvey

d. Martin Luther King, Jr.

e. Booker T. Washington

6. The first meeting of The Niagara Movement was in what country?

a. The United States

b. Mexico

c. Cuba

d. Jamaica

e. Canada

7. Who is associated with this phrase: “UP, up you mighty race! You can accomplish what you will!”

a. W.E.B. DuBois

b. William Monroe Trotter

c. Marcus Garvey

d. Martin Luther King, Jr.

e. Booker T. Washington

8. According to Harding’s Interlude Chapter, “We the people: The struggle continues,” Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on what date?

________________

9. The Communist Party appealed to many African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s. What happened to change this alliance?

a. Hitler attacked Russia

b. The Communist Party in the U.S. aligned itself with the KKK

c. The KKK aligned itself with the U.S. Communist Party

d. The bombing of Pearl Harbor

e. All of the above

10. In Harding’s introduction to Chapter 14 (Back to the movement (1979 – mid 1980s), a “Black Metropolis” was described that was the nucleus of many important events in African American history, including the development of artists like Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, cultural workers like Haki Madhubuti and Herbie Hancock, businesses like the Johnson Publishing Company, and religious institutions like the Nation of Islam and Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH. In what city did all of this happen?

a. Claremont

b. Los Angeles

c. Philadelphia

d. Washington, D.C.

e. None of the above: please specify: __________________