Early Civil Rights Efforts

Question 1

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

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Other minorities began to play professional baseball.

Question 2

An NAACP member who became a Supreme Court justice was

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Thurgood Marshall.

Question 3

What strategy did the NAACP use to try to end segregation?

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arguing legal cases in court

Question 4

Segregation in the US armed forces was required by

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Congress.

Question 5

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

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change their views about minorities.

Question 6

Which event marked the beginning of segregation in professional baseball in the late 1800s?

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Baseball owners reached an informal agreement on segregation.

Question 7

Which best describes the US armed forces during World War II?

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segregated

Question 8

Executive Order 8802 integrated

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the defense industry.

Question 9

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 10

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.

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