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Question

1. Who was the flamboyant and really successful minister, leader of the United House of Prayer for All People. He fed the hungry in church cafeterias, the book says, and housed the homeless in his apartment buildings. He also wore a crown, had long hair, purple robes, and long red, white, and blue fingernails.

a. Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
b. Daddy Grace
c. George Baker
d. Father Divine

2. Who said, "there was a time when our mothers and sisters could not protect themselves from such beasts but a new era has begun and we proposed to defend ourselves" and at where?

a. Margaret Mary Washington at a meeting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women
b. Harriet Tubman at a meeting of the National Association of Colored Women
c. An attendee at a national meeting called by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin in Boston in 1895 which led to the creation of the NACW

3. A. Philip Randolph, the book says, built on the Wagner Act d o all of the following, EXCEPT:

a. Advocate interracial unionism
b. Support the work of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
c. Promote the rights of blacks and the rights of labor
d. Co-ordinate a "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" campaign

4. Which political party was really good about advocating for civil rights, racial equality, and anti-discrimination laws and in the 1930s? It helped, the book says, "advance the fundamental understanding that economic empowerment was essential to the ongoing black freedom struggle."

a. Democrat(ic)
b. Republican
c. Communist
d. Libertarian

5. The __________ was losing membership, criticized for being too middle-class, and for overlooking the needs of black workers. WEB DuBois resigned from editing its publication, The Crisis. By 1934, however, Charles Hamilton Houston re-energized the organization by initiating an effort to overturn segregation (it would result in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954).

a. National Negro Congress (NNC)
b. Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC)
c. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

6. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the few New Deal programs that really benefitted black Americans. It built roads, bridges, parks AND sponsored the Federal Writers Project. The FWP employed artists, writers, musicians, actors, including Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, Eldzier Cortor and Arna Bontemps, dancer Katherine Dunham, gospel singers, many others. In employing all of these creative people, the WPA was the basis of the __________ Renaissance.

a. Harlem
b. Chicago

7. Whose haunting signature song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk protested lynching.

a. Bessie Smith
b. Ma Rainey
c. Billie Holiday
d. Ella Fitzgerald

8. All of the following sports stars challenged systemic racism in the US, eugenics and Nazism in Germany, by excelling at their respective sports and under the worst of conditions, EXCEPT (highlight 2)

a. Jessie Owens
b. Joe Louis
c. Max Schmeling
d. Jim Braddock

9. Fill in the blank ... "The __________ and __________," the book says, "forced African Americans to confront the fundamental reality that their freedom struggle has remained complex and multifaceted; racial, economic, political, social, and cultural. The catastrophe of the __________ and the wide-ranging yet all too often racially discriminatory __________ efforts to alleviate that crisis forced African Americans to grapple even more intensely with the complexities of their multifaceted freedom struggle."

10. What would lead black Americans to demand democracy at home as never before, according to the book?

a. Reconstruction
b. The Great War
c. WWII