1.  Jim 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

2.  In which states were blacks the majority population until 1930?  A) North Carolina and Florida  B) Alabama and Georgia  C) Mississippi and South Carolina C

3.  Which U.S. President issued an executive order to desegregate the armed forces?  A) Harry S. Truman  B) Franklin D. Roosevelt  C) Dwight D. Eisenhower A

4.  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:  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

5.  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?  A) Marian Anderson  B) Ella Fitzgerald  C) Leontyne Price A

6.  What is the difference between de facto and de jure segregation?  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

7.  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.  A) inbreeding  B) lynching  C) rioting B

8.  Who was the founder and first editor of the NAACP’s monthly magazine The Crisis?  A) Langston Hughes  B) Thurgood Marshall  C) W.E.B. DuBois C

9.  How many African Americans were elected to the U.S. Congress from northern states between 1870-1900?  A) 0  B) 5  C) 8 A

10.  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.”  A) Theodore Bilbo  B) George C. Wallace  C) Eugene “Bull” Connor B

11.  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:  Overview of Jim Crow http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm  Exploring the time period http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation.html

12. Grouphttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcr ow/segregation.html (4 assigned people & 4 events from assigned time period) http://www.ferris.edu/j imcrow/what.htm (read assigned section) 1863-1880Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, Charlotte Hawkins Brown 1881-1900W.E.B. DuBois, Jessie Daniel Ames, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolp 1901-1920Richard Wright, Ned Cobb, Charles Hamilton Houston, Marcus Garvey 1921-1938Charles Evers, Barbara Johns, Hosea Williams, Madam C.J. Walker 1939-1954Sidney Bechet, Lucy Craft Laney, Isaiah T. Montgomery, Walter White