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African American History
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04/14/2013

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Silas Hunt
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Voluntarily admitted into the U of A law school
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The Negro World
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The UNIA
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Donald Murray
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Admitted into University of Maryland law school
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L.C. Dyer
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Introduced House Bill to outlaw lynching
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Langston Hughes
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Brass Spittoons
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Father Devine
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Peace Missions
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Black laborers during WWII
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Stevedore's
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Jean Toomer
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Cane
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Aubrey Williams
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Headed CCC Camps
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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President of black division of NYA
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Fredrick Patterson
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Created United Negro College Fund
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William Hastie
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Served as assistant solicitor of Dept. of Interior
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FDR's black cabinet differed from its precedeers because..
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Blacks were policy makers and dealt with real issues that affected African Americans with direct access to the president
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Walter White
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wrote Rope and Faggott, A Biography of Judge Lynch
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A result of the large black migration to Norther urban centers
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A political resurgence that gave African Americans a degree of political strength that they used to vote the first blacks into office since reconstruction

 

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Only non-enemy of KKK
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
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In order to survive during the Great Depression, black colleges:
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bagan to consolidate their resources
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The fight for federal anti-lynching legislation was led by:
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The NAACP
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The commission on Interracial Cooperation did not:
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Fight Segregation
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Zora Neale Hurston labeled whites who were fascinated with life in Harlem and other black communities as:
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Negrotarians
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The Supreme Court in Missouri ex. Rel. Gaines v. Canada, Registrar of the University, et al:
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Declared that it was the duty of the state to provide education for all its citizens, and that the provision must be made within the state
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The rise of the UNIA can mostly be attributed to:
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Garvey's success at forging interracial cooperation
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Marcus Garvey begun the Universal Improvement Association in: 
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Jamaica
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This African American became the first ever black Democrat to sit in Congress
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Arthur W. Mitchell
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Which of the following does not belong in this group?


a. Harlem Renaissance

b. New Negro Movement

c. Black Revolution

d. Black Renaissance

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d. Black renaissance

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The red summer took place during what year?
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1918

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The NAACP hired this light skinned African American to investigate lynching?
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Walter White

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Few African American farmers benefited from this New Deal Program, which was established to provide relief to farmers and agricultural workers:
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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This African American was appointed assistant to the secretary of war as an advisor on matters affecting blacks and the part they would play in World War I:
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Emmit J. Scott

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