Exam 22: Progress and Poverty

Colin Powell was the first African American to hold all of the following positions EXCEPT

Which cofounder of Def Jams Records is arguably the first major producer of Hip Hop?

Guion S.Bluford,Jr.and Mae E.Jamison were,respectively,the first black man and first black woman to

In Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential bid,his grassroots supporters were known as

When Jesse Jackson made his second bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988,approximately what percentage of the votes cast did he receive?

The music of De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest is marked by

Who was Amadou Diallo?

Many African Americans objected to the policies of the Reagan administration for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Hip Hop culture in the early 1980s included all of the following elements EXCEPT

Which group's Nasty as They Wanna Be led to the arrest of its members on charges of obscenity after a performance in Florida,an arrest which the courts later overturned as a violation of free expression?

In the late 1980s and early 1990s,the U.S.Supreme Court

Which of the following statements about Jesse Jackson's bid for the Democratic presidential candidacy is LEAST accurate?

Salt n Pepa,MC Lyte,and TLC were prominent examples of

Who was the first black female billionaire in the history of the United States?

One reason that The Cosby Show was culturally important is that

Which author became the first African-American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993?

Thomas Sowell,Walter Williams,and Shelby Steele were all prominent African-American scholars who

Whom did President Ronald Reagan succeed in appointing as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1982?

Which of the following statements about economic changes in the United States between 1945 and 1990 is LEAST accurate?

Who emerged as perhaps the most prominent black filmmaker of the late 1980s and 1990s with his films Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X?