Deck 15: Voices of Protest

Question 1

In the case of Monroe v.Dempsey (1923),the Supreme Court ruled that

A)defendants who lynched a man who had been sentenced to death could be charged with obstruction of justice but not with murder.
B)prohibiting blacks from serving on the jury of a black defendant might deny the defendant of his right to a fair trial.
C)grandfather clauses were constitutional because they did not explicitly deny citizens the right to vote on the basis of race.
D)as a private institution,the Democratic Party could legally bar blacks from its primaries.

Answer 1

prohibiting blacks from serving on the jury of a black defendant might deny the defendant of his right to a fair trial.

Question 2

Which 1944 Supreme Court case conclusively established that the exclusion of blacks from Democratic state primaries was a violation of the Fifteenth Amendment?

A)Nixon v.Condon
B)Nixon v.Herndon
C)Smith v.Allwright
D)Buchanan v.Warley

Answer 2

Smith v.Allwright

Question 3

Who wrote the lines,"If we must die,let it not be like hogs,…Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack,/ Pressed to the wall,dying but fighting back"?

A)Cyril R.Briggs
B)Claude McKay
C)James Weldon Johnson
D)William Pickens

Answer 3

Claude McKay

Question 4

Many black Americans protested the occupation of which country by U.S.Marines in 1915?

A)Liberia
B)Haiti
C)Cuba
D)Nicaragua

Question 5

In 1918,approximately how many copies of its magazine did the NAACP sell each month?

A)1000
B)10,000
C)100,000
D)1,000,000

Question 6

The 1915 U.S.Supreme Court case of Guinn v.United States declared that

A)grandfather clauses violated the Fifteenth Amendment.
B)black veterans of the First World War could not be denied the right to vote.
C)poll taxes imposed an "unconscionable" burden on citizens,and were therefore unconstitutional.
D)individuals could only lose the right to vote as a consequence of their own actions and not as a consequence of any ethnic,racial,or political group to which they belonged.

Question 7

What was the name of the magazine published by the NAACP?

A)The Crisis
B)The Masses
C)The Crusader
D)The Liberator

Question 8

Which of the following statements about Progressivism and race is LEAST accurate?

A)Many white southern progressives advocated segregation and the disenfranchisement of blacks as progressive reforms.
B)Many white northern progressives believed that science had proven that blacks were not mentally equipped to handle the burdens of political participation.
C)Although most white Progressives remained indifferent to racial inequality,Theodore Roosevelt proved an exception in 1912 when he made black rights part of his platform.
D)The NAACP and similar black organizations employed many of the same tactics and methods as other Progressive-era reform movements.

Question 9

In June 1921,an altercation described by several observers as a "race war," which left at least nine whites and twenty-one blacks dead,broke out in what town?

A)Tulsa,Oklahoma
B)Elaine,Arkansas
C)Omaha,Nebraska
D)Knoxville,Tennessee

Question 10

Which of the following statements about the revived Ku Klux Klan is LEAST accurate?

A)Its membership swelled to over 100,000 by the beginning of the 1920s.
B)It remained an almost purely southern institution,like its Reconstruction-era predecessor.
C)It targeted not only blacks,but also Asians,Catholics,and Jews.
D)The antiblack violence which it aroused was targeted especially at black soldiers,a number of whom were killed.

Question 11

During his presidency Woodrow Wilson issued an executive order which

A)segregated federal facilities and removed many blacks from federal office.
B)integrated all of the armed forces except for the Marines.
C)created a federal commission to investigate the epidemic of lynching in the South.
D)guaranteed blacks in the federal civil service the same salaries as their white counterparts.

Question 12

When an NAACP-sponsored bill against lynching was introduced to Congress in 1919,it was

A)tabled without consideration.
B)passed by the House but defeated by a senatorial filibuster.
C)passed by both houses,but vetoed by President Wilson.
D)passed by both houses and signed into law,but without an effective enforcement measure to make it anything more than an empty gesture.

Question 13

When someone in the household of black physician Ossian H.Sweet fired a fatal shot into the white mob assaulting the Sweet's new house in a white neighborhood,the Sweets were

A)dragged immediately from their homes and murdered irrespective of their gender.
B)arrested and acquitted of all charges thanks to the legal support of the NAACP and famous white attorneys.
C)found guilty by an all-white jury,which rejected their pleas of self-defense,sentenced Ossian Sweet and his brother to execution,and sentenced Ossian's wife to life imprisonment.
D)rescued from prison by a black mob and spirited away to Europe to escape prosecution.

Question 14

The race riot at Elaine,Arkansas,began after

A)a black boy swimming in the white section of a lake drowned after whites threw stones at him.
B)false reports circulated that black men were assaulting white women.
C)a black soldier killed a white police officer in an altercation.
D)a deputy sheriff led a posse to disrupt a meeting of tenant farmers who had organized to demand fairer treatment from their landlord.

Question 15

Approximately how many African Americans fled the South for the North and the West between 1915 and 1930?

A)500,000
B)1,500,000
C)3,000,000
D)5,250,000

Question 16

A white mob effectively destroyed what black Florida town in 1923,and managed to conceal their crime from general knowledge for several decades?

A)Christiana
B)Prattville
C)Ridgewater
D)Rosewood

Question 17

The ubiquity of race riots led the summer of which year to be known as the "Red Summer"?

A)1908
B)1915
C)1919
D)1923

Question 18

Which of the following statements about Francis J.Grimké is LEAST accurate?

A)He was the nephew of famous white women's rights activists.
B)He was born into slavery.
C)He urged black veterans returning from the First World War to demand their rights.
D)He embraced Booker T.Washington's belief in accommodation to Jim Crow realities.

Question 19

Founded in 1919 by white Methodist minister Will W.Alexander,the Commission on Interracial Cooperation denounced all of the following EXCEPT

A)segregation.
B)debt peonage.
C)disenfranchisement.
D)mob violence.

Question 20

President Wilson lavished praise on The Birth of a Nation,a 1915 movie which glorified

A)the Radical Republicans.
B)the antebellum abolitionist movement.
C)the Ku Klux Klan.
D)African-American participation in the American Revolution.

Question 21

The failure of which crop contributed greatly to Afro-Caribbean migration into the United States in the early twentieth century?

A)bananas
B)sugar
C)cotton
D)rice

Question 22

Which of the following statements about black female suffrage is LEAST accurate?

A)Even before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment,black women could vote in some northern states.
B)Finding strength in numbers,national suffragist organizations like NAWSA welcomed black women into their ranks.
C)After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment,black women in southern states found that their right to vote was still denied.
D)Without abandoning the struggle against racial discrimination,black women in the early twentieth century also publicly protested against the disenfranchisement of women.

Question 23

Which of the following statements about Marcus Garvey is LEAST accurate?

A)At one point,Garvey proclaimed the creation of the Empire of Africa,with himself as its head of state.
B)Garvey's movement had widespread appeal,attracting equal numbers of followers in both the southern and northern states.
C)Garvey's insistence on black pride won him the unwavering support of black leaders like Du Bois and Randolph.
D)Garvey's following represented the largest black movement in American history.

Question 24

How did southern community leaders respond to the migration of blacks out of the South in the 1920s?

A)Black community leaders took control of the migration,over the protests of white leaders who worried about the economic consequences of black flight.
B)Black community leaders took control of the migration with the active support of white leaders who wanted to remove blacks from the South.
C)Black community leaders opposed the migration,though white leaders,eager to make the South all-white,strongly encouraged it.
D)Black community leaders as well as white community leaders opposed the migration,which continued despite the lack of leadership.

Question 25

What island was the origin of the largest contingent of Afro-Caribbeans to migrate to the United States?

A)Jamaica
B)Cuba
C)Nevis
D)Barbados

Question 26

Whose sculpture Ethiopia Awakening was influenced by contemporary pan-Africanism and the conflation of Ethiopia with all of Africa?

A)Meta Fuller
B)Henrietta Vinton Davis
C)Hallie Q.Brown
D)Josephine Ruffin

Question 27

Who led an interracial religious and social movement in the 1920s and 1930s which established "heavens" to feed the hungry in the East and Midwest?

A)Elizabeth Carter
B)Meta Fuller
C)Marcus Garvey
D)Father Divine

Question 28

To a disproportionate degree,Afro-Caribbean immigrants to the United States were

A)educated and prosperous.
B)politically conservative.
C)reluctant to assimilate.
D)more strongly attached to traditional black churches.

Question 29

Although their political views on the issue converged over time,African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans were initially usually at odds over the question of

A)whether reform should be pursued within the political system or outside of it.
B)whether racial discrimination could be overcome without also addressing sexual discrimination.
C)whether blacks should lend their support to the Democrats or the Republicans.
D)whether overcoming class or racial discrimination should be blacks' primary goal.

Question 30

A crucial difference between Marcus Garvey's UNIA and both the NAACP and the socialist movement was that the UNIA

A)addressed not only the political and legal concerns of black people,but also their social concerns.
B)believed that only through the cooperation of whites and blacks within a single organization could black people advance.
C)believed that a small elite should assume a role of leadership to guide the masses to better lives.
D)managed to appeal to and win the support of a wide swath of black Americans,creating a true mass following.

Question 31

All of the following contributed to the downfall of Marcus Garvey EXCEPT

A)his failure to attract support from the black working class.
B)the hostility of most black leaders.
C)the failure of his proposed steamship line and his subsequent conviction for fraud.
D)his willingness to pursue common cause with the Ku Klux Klan.