In the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century

Multiple Choice

In the first decade of the twenty-first century,

A) African Americans constituted three percent of the nation's college population.
B) there was little-to-no economic disparity between black and white professionals.
C) half of all African Americans lived in poverty as members of the "underclass."
D) half of all African Americans were members of the middle class.
E) the percentage of black high school graduates going to college still lagged significantly behind that of white high school graduates.