Early Civil Rights Efforts

Question 1

Jackie Robinson’s success in Major League Baseball encouraged white Americans to

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change their views about minorities.

Question 2

Read this quotation.In this period of power politics, nothing counts but pressure, and still more pressure, through the tactic and strategy of broad, organized, aggressive mass action behind the vital and important issues of the Negro.–A. Philip Randolph, 1940Based on the quotation, Randolph would most likely consider the best strategy for integrating the armed forces to be

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organizing to pressure politicians.

Question 3

Executive Order 8802 integrated

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the defense industry.

Question 4

What was one effect of Jackie Robinson’s joining Major League Baseball?

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Other minorities began to play professional baseball.

Question 5

Which statement best describes how Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson affected American culture?

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They showed the country that integration could be successful.

Question 6

When some people reacted negatively to Jackie Robinson’s presence on the Brooklyn Dodgers, baseball officials

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actively worked to stop the dissent.

Question 7

An NAACP member who became a Supreme Court justice was

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Thurgood Marshall.

Question 8

Why did Major League Baseball owners support segregation by 1890?

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They feared that white audiences would not pay to watch African American players.

Question 9

Which legal case forced the University of Maryland to admit an African American student to its law school?

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Murray v. Pearson

Question 10

Segregation in the US armed forces was required by

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Congress.

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