 Jim
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Crow was _____________.
A) a famous singer who composed slave songs
B) a set of laws and social customs requiring
racial segregation
C) a popular Mississippi governor who was a white
supremacist.
B
 In
which states were blacks the majority
population until 1930?
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A) North Carolina and Florida
B) Alabama and Georgia
C) Mississippi and South Carolina
C
 Which
U.S. President issued an executive
order to desegregate the armed forces?
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A) Harry S. Truman
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower
A
 The
U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark
1954 decision in the case now commonly
known as Brown v. Board of Education, made
the following finding:
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A) racially segregated public schools were
“separate but equal”
B) racially segregated public schools existed only
in the south
C) racially segregated public schools were
unconstitutional
C
 Which
African American singer gave a concert
on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939
because the Daughters of the American
Revolution barred her from performing in
their concert hall, Constitution Hall?
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A) Marian Anderson
B) Ella Fitzgerald
C) Leontyne Price
A
 What
is the difference between de facto and
de jure segregation?
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A) segregation mandated by law v. developed by
custom
B) segregation developed by custom v. mandated
by law
C) segregation that was unlawful v. lawful
B
 Below
is an excerpt from the Billie Holiday
song, “Strange Fruit”:
Southern trees bear strange fruit, blood on
the leaves and blood at the root, black
bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
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A) inbreeding
B) lynching
C) rioting
B
 Who
was the founder and first editor of the
NAACP’s monthly magazine The Crisis?
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A) Langston Hughes
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) W.E.B. DuBois
C
 How
many African Americans were elected to
the U.S. Congress from northern states
between 1870-1900?
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A) 0
B) 5
C) 8
A
 Which
governor uttered these fateful words
at his 1963 inauguration,
“I draw the line in the dust and toss the
gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say
segregation now, segregation tomorrow,
segregation forever.”
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A) Theodore Bilbo
B) George C. Wallace
C) Eugene “Bull” Connor
B
 Create
a 30 second movie that highlights the
events of your time period: Use text,
images, and sounds. Use your discretion
when choosing images. Remember, these are
real people and real events.
 You will visit 2 sites to assist your in your
movie:
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Overview of Jim Crow
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http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm
Exploring the time period
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation.html
Group
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcr http://www.ferris.edu/j
ow/segregation.html
imcrow/what.htm
(4 assigned people & 4 events
(read assigned section)
from assigned time period)
1863-1880
Booker T. Washington, Ida B.
Wells, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton,
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
1881-1900
W.E.B. DuBois, Jessie Daniel
Ames, Mary McLeod Bethune, A.
Philip Randolp
1901-1920
Richard Wright, Ned Cobb,
Charles Hamilton Houston,
Marcus Garvey
1921-1938
Charles Evers, Barbara Johns,
Hosea Williams, Madam C.J.
Walker
1939-1954
Sidney Bechet, Lucy Craft Laney,
Isaiah T. Montgomery, Walter
White