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Question 1: What does the following picture show?

  A segregative sign on a restaurant in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1938.
  A segregative sign on a restaurant in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1938.
  1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow legal pretense that the races be "separate but equal" under the law, the actuality that non-whites would be given inferior facilities and treatment was widely understood.
  An African-American youth at a drinking fountain in a courthouse lawn in Halifax, North Carolina, in 1938.

Question 2: The Supreme Court in 1946, in Irene Morgan v. Virginia ruled segregation in interstate transportation to be unconstitutional, in an application of the ________ of the Constitution.
Commerce ClauseDue processEqual Protection ClauseDormant Commerce Clause

Question 3: The three were volunteers aiding in the registration of African-American voters as part of the ________.
Malcolm XAfrican-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)Freedom SummerStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 4: The group persuaded ________, who was only one-eighth "Negro" and of fair complexion, to test it.
Anti-miscegenation lawsRacial segregationHomer PlessyJim Crow laws

Question 5: [4] The white, Democratic Party ________ government that followed the troop withdrawal legislated Jim Crow laws segregating black people from the state's white population.
RedeemersColfax massacreRedemption (United States history)Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era

Question 6: A group of concerned black, colored and white citizens in ________ formed an association dedicated to rescinding the law.
New OrleansNew Orleans metropolitan areaLouisianaBaton Rouge, Louisiana

Question 7: Anti-miscegenation laws were not repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964[1] but were declared unconstitutional by the 1967 Supreme Court ruling in ________.
Loving v. VirginiaJohn Marshall Harlan IIAbe FortasMildred and Richard Loving

Question 8: [7] At Gettysburg on 4 July 1913, the semi-centennial of ________'s declaration that "all men are created equal", Wilson addressed the crowd:
Abraham LincolnGerald FordUlysses S. GrantAndrew Johnson

Question 9: The Citizens Committee of New Orleans fought the case all the way to the ________.
United States CongressUnited States courts of appealsSupreme Court of the United StatesUnited States Constitution

Question 10: ________' 1955 act of civil disobedience, in which she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, was a catalyst in later years of the Civil Rights movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Malcolm XRosa ParksAfrican-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)
















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