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6. What specifically speeded up desegregation in the armed forces?

  • The Second World War
  • The shortage of manpower in the Korean War,
  • The Cold War
  • Nothing- desegregation didn't happen to any extent.

7. Why was it handicapped?

  • Because of a shortage of funds, and conservative employees.
  • Congress disliked it.
  • Blacks thought it was pityful.
  • It excluded help for blacks who's ancestors were slaves.

8. When did Truman try and end discrimination among federal employees?

  • 1948
  • 1951
  • 1946
  • 1949

9. 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.

10. Who was Adam Clayton Powell?

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

11. Truman was the first president to ever campaign in...

  • Harlem
  • Mepmhsis
  • Atlanta
  • Texas

12. By executive order 10308, what did Truman establish?

  • A civil rights bill
  • A secret police set out to abolish the KKK
  • The Committee on Government Contract Compliance- encouraged companies to halt job discrimination. (DECEMBER 1951)
  • The Fair Employment Board

13. Southern Democrats nominated who for their presidental candidate?

  • Strom Thurmond
  • Walter White
  • Adam Clayton Powell
  • James Farmer

14. What was McLAURIN v. OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS? 1950

  • Segregation on the Montgomery buses was illegal.
  • A black student could not be physically separated from white students in the University of Oklahoma.
  • Segregation in the Texan Law School was illegal.
  • Segregation in Oklahoma's local library was declared unconstitutional.

15. .How did NAACP's Walter White rank the Lincoln Memorial speech?

  • "one of the greatest presidential speeches"
  • "we've heard it all before"
  • " a farce"
  • "mediocre with only his own political interests at the heart of it"

16. Why was the CGCC less effective than the FEPC?

  • The CGCC was hindered by white supremacy.
  • Because it could only recommend and not enforce.
  • The FEPC was established first, and therefore was more effective.
  • It lacked sufficient funding.

17. What was SWEATT v. PAINTER? 1950

  • Segregation on park benches was abolished.
  • Segregation in Oklahoma's local library was declared unconstitutional.
  • A separate black Texan law school was not equal to the University of Texas Law School to which the black petitioner had therefore to be admitted.
  • Segregation at the Mississippi Mathmatics school was declared as "degrading" by president Truman.

18. When was Harry Truman elected as president in his own right?

  • 1949
  • 1950
  • 1948
  • 1946

19. How did different parts of America react to the democratic convention?

  • Southerners :) Northerners + Westerners :(
  • Westerners :) Northerners + Southerners :(
  • Northerners + Westerners :) Southerners :(
  • Northerners :) Westerners :I Southerners :(

20. Truman was the first president to address what, and when?

  • The NAACP- 1947
  • CORE- 1949
  • SCLC- 1948
  • SNCC- 1950