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	A controversy developed within the NAACP during the 1930s because:   Du Bois argued that the NAACP should not support the improvement of segregated institutions. Du Bois refused to step down from the editorship of The Crisis. Du Bois advocated increased pressure on the nation's judicial system to end Jim Crow segregation. W. E. B. Du Bois criticized the group's overemphasis on integration and advocated voluntary segregation to focus on economic opportunity.

	As one part of the Second New Deal, this public works program provided the most assistance to black Americans.   Works Progress Administration. National Recovery Administration. Social Security Act. National Labor Relations Act.

	Charles Houston's plan for the NAACP's challenge to segregation focused on:   creating a massive propaganda campaign designed to persuade southern whites of the immorality of segregation. pursuing a direct legal challenge to the constitutionality of segregated facilities. ratifying a constitutional amendment prohibiting segregation. forcing southern states to equalize their facilities so that the cost of separate institutions would become prohibitive and thus abandoned.

	In the election of 1932, a majority of black voters broke their traditional ties with the Republican Party to support Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt.    True  False

	Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch ally of African Americans.    True  False

	Largely because most African Americans had not shared in the economic prosperity of the 1920s, their financial situation did not radically change during the Great Depression.    True  False

	Many southern black families were hit hard by the Great Depression because they had continued to grow , a crop that faced plunging prices between 1929 and 1933.

	With a “leftward political shift,” won the 1936 presidential election in a landslide.

	Many black workers were drawn to the Party because it criticized the refusal of organized white labor to include them.

	Which of the following groups served as an “umbrella” organization of varied African-American protest groups?   The Wobblies. NAACP. National Negro Congress. Universal Negro Improvement Association.

	Who was the first African American elected to the House of Representatives from a northern state in 1928?   E. Franklin Frazier. Oscar De Priest. Lorenzo Green. Robert Vann.

	The Scottsboro case resulted in all of the following except:   three separate trials of the black men, all of which found the accused guilty. most African Americans fully supported and joined the Communist Party because of its assistance for the Scottsboro defendants. the recanting of one of the woman's story concerning the supposed rape. two legal decisions that affirmed black people's right to basic protections enjoyed by all American citizens.

	As consumer demand for cotton declined at the end of the 1920s, southern black farmers produced other agricultural crops to successfully avoid the worst effects of the Depression.    True  False

	Most African Americans were relieved when the NIRA was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court because it had provided few benefits for them.    True  False

	The NAACP became effective in the 1930s under the leadership of , a man whose physical characteristics could have permitted him to pass for white.

	Begun in 1932 as a temporary program to research syphilis, the Study lasted for decades without offering treatment to black men who were afflicted.

	Unlike the American Federation of Labor, the was committed to interracial and multiethnic labor organizations and reached out to black workers.

	Jesse Binga was the first African American to __________.   eat dinner at the White House own and operate a financial institution retire from the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters win a case before the United States Supreme Court

	Who was the first black woman admitted to practice law in Maryland?   Juanita E. Jackson Ella Baker Bessie Smith Fannie B. Peck

	What brought the Communist Party to the attention of African Americans people?   The Sipuel Case The Sweatt Case The Scottsboro trial The Scopes trial

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