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African Americans
True or False
1
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was designed to overrule the "black codes" emerging in the South after the Civil War.
A)
True
B)
False
2
The educational attainment gap between whites and blacks has increased for high school rates and decreased for college graduation rates.
A)
True
B)
False
3
According to the Russell Sage Foundation study discussed in your text, employers still hold many negative stereotypes about African Americans.
A)
True
B)
False
4
The availability of Federal Housing Authority (FHA) mortgages for blacks increased the movement of blacks into the suburbs.
A)
True
B)
False
5
African Americans hold less than 2 percent of all elected offices in the United States.
A)
True
B)
False
6
African-American families were the only ethnic group to see poverty rates increase in the first years of the new century.
A)
True
B)
False
7
Stokely Carmichael and other more militant black leaders advocated the position that acts of white violence and oppression should be met with equal force.
A)
True
B)
False
8
Black infant mortality rates are more than twice that of whites.
A)
True
B)
False
9
Negative beliefs and stereotypes have reinforced the identifiability of African Americans.
A)
True
B)
False
10
The gap between blacks and whites with high school diplomas has been closing over the last 30 years.
A)
True
B)
False
11
Unlike World War I, World War II did not cause a massive black migration to urban areas in both the North and South.
A)
True
B)
False
12
Negro spirituals represented one form of protest that articulated the troubles and dissatisfaction of African slaves.
A)
True
B)
False
13
Violence was NOT a common occurrence in the post-Reconstruction era.
A)
True
B)
False
14
In Weber v. Kaiser Aluminum (1979), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers could not use "race" as a criterion for hiring.
A)
True
B)
False
15
After enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans have made significant political gains at the state and local levels.
A)
True
B)
False
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