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6. What year was Boynton v. Virginia?

  • 1960
  • 1956
  • 1959

7. What lawyer was central to the education cases of the 1950s?

  • Earl Warren
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Moorfield Storey

8. Voting statistics for Selma 1965:

  • 50% AA population, only 1% of registered electorate were black
  • 50% AA population, only 5% of registered electorate were black

9. What executive order desegregates the armed forces?

  • 8802
  • 9981
  • 9980

10. What student was escorted by federal troops into Mississippi University?

  • Sam Hose
  • James Meredith
  • Alan Bakke

11. What recommendations of the PCCR are fulfilled by the 1957 CRA?

  • Civil Rights Division in Department of Justice and Joint Congressional Committee
  • Civil Rights Commission and Civil Rights Division in Department of Justice
  • Civil Rights Commission and abolition of poll tax

12. What riots immediately succeeded the Voting Rights Act?

  • Watt riots in LA
  • Chicago riots
  • Mississippi race riots

13. How many jobs did this Breadbasket operation achieve?

  • 2000 - $10 million a year into the black economy
  • 2000 - $15 million a year into the black economy
  • 1000 - $15 million a year into the black economy

14. Who was Eisenhower's token black employee?

  • Theodore Bilbo
  • Frederick Morrow
  • William Coleman

15. Who was the volatile police chiedf in Birmingham 1963?

  • Bull Connor
  • Bull Clark
  • Bull Daley

16. What was significant about the murder of Emmett Till?

  • mixed jury found murderers guilty
  • all white jury found murderers not guilty
  • all white jury found murderes guilty

17. What percentage of schools had been desegregated by 1957?

  • 18
  • 12
  • 20