CSTU 220 Quiz Education and Health

CSTU 220 Quiz: Education and Health

Covers the Learn material from Module 5: Week 5.

1. In the Sweatt and McLaurin cases of 1950, the NAACP evidenced a shift in the direction of what innovative tactic, which represented an important departure from earlier efforts?
2. The White Citizens’ Councils which sprang up in many southern states were formed primarily with which goal in mind?
3. Which president desegregated the armed forces and issued an executive order requiring fair employment in the federal service?
4. How did public schools in the North differ from those in the South?
5. Explain the background and significance of the landmark Supreme Court Case, Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. In what ways was it a transformative moment for African Americans, and in what ways did it fail to bring change to education for African Americans?
6. Who became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Arab-Israeli War of 1948?
7. Which scholar, the second black man to receive a doctorate in history from Harvard University, is known today as the Father of Black History?
8. The novels of George W. Henderson and George W. Lee both focused on black life in
9. As lawyers in the 1930s and 1940s, Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston adopted all of the following tactics EXCEPT
10. What Supreme Court case did Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas overturn in 1954?
11. Who were the Little Rock Nine?