Civil Rights in the USA QUIZ- TRUMAN

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1. Truman said that legal equality was...

  • A black man's basic right.
  • Only meant for whites.
  • Should be given to blacks when whites were ready.
  • Never to be given to blacks.
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2. What did the Fair Employment Board aim to do?

  • Give minorities equal treatment in federal employment.
  • Give blacks reparations.
  • Help the poor out of poverty
  • Give blacks jobs on reservations.

3. Who was Hubert Humphrey?

  • Not a Mayor
  • The Minneapolis Mayor
  • The Kansas Mayor
  • The Mississippi Mayor

4. What did the "To Secure these Rights" report of October 1947 propose?

  • That African Americans had a "satisfactory" level of rights
  • The abolishment of the FEPC.
  • Anti-lynching legislation and the abolition of the poll tax.
  • That nothing needed to be changed.

5. Who was Adam Clayton Powell?

  • A black representative.
  • The president after Truman
  • A white racist
  • President Truman's friend.

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