December Bonus

1.

5 points

True or False? The corporation Walmart benefited from the Stand Your Ground law.

True

False

2.

5 points

True or False? Prisoners provide corporations with free labor.

True

False

3.

5 points

True or False? Social activist A. Philip Randolph believed that affluent, middle-class African Americans had no influence on the media, and thereby, public opinion.

True

False

4.

5 points

True or False? The “Atlanta Compromise” called for African Americans to focus on using their “hands” as a means of “production,” rather than focus on social integration.

True

False

5.

5 points

True or False? The CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) runs a detention center for “illegal” immigrants. The center is clean and comfortable.

True

False

6.

5 points

True or False? The attack on Springfield was a major inspiration for the launch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

True

False

7.

5 points

The Black Panther Party gave free breakfast and lunches to the Black children in their community, as well as free clothing and medical care.

True

False

8.

5 points

True or False? The Niagara Movement preceded the NAACP.

True

False

9.

5 points

True or False? In 1895, Booker T. Washington gave a stirring speech, later referred to as the Atlanta Compromise.

True

False

10.

5 points

True or False? A violent, white mob attacked the African American town of Springfield, IL in 1908.

True

False

11.

5 points

True or False? The Niagara Movement gained a lot of popular media exposure during the 1900s.

True

False

12.

5 points

True or False? W.E.B. Du Bois was a leader of the Niagara Movement.

True

False

13.

5 points

True or False? W.E.B. Du Bois was welcome to establish a meeting, regarding the demise of segregation, on the American side of Niagara Falls.

True

False

14.

5 points

True or False? ALEC stands for Association of the Legislative Exchange Council.

True

False

15.

5 points

The Eisenhower Administration feared a new “civil war” if the president sent troops down South to protect Black students as they integrated the schools.

True

False

16.

5 points

True or False? African Americans of the Jim Crow era generally supported the sleeping car porters and their labor union.

True

False

17.

5 points

True or False? Kalief Browder (the young man who would not take the plea deal) spent the majority of his sentence in solitary confinement. He also suffered regular beatings.

True

False

18.

5 points

True or False? There are now more Black Americans incarcerated (imprisoned) than there were enslaved during the 1850s.

True

False

19.

5 points

The governor of Arkansas lied about protecting the Black children who were integrating the schools.

True

False

20.

5 points

True or False? Assata Shakur, the aunt of Tupac Shakur, was broken out of prison by her supporters and smuggled to Cuba. She is still currently there.

True

False