Exam 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change

Many U.S.presidents laid the foundation for Affirmative Action with their presidential orders.

About 20 percent of African American men and women were interracially married in 1996.

This 1995 event took place in hopes that it could help to overcome the overwhelmingly negative images of Blacks and Black males.

Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X to drop his slave master's name.

Who refused to give up the bus seat in Montgomery,Alabama and sparked a bus boycott in 1955?

Which U.S.Supreme Court case allowed racial considerations for law school admissions in 2003 with Affirmative Action?

All of the following were used against the peaceful protesters in Alabama except:

African American and Anglo American cultures are identical according to the research presented in the text.

Black families earn approximately ________ on White families dollar in the United States.

Hallinan and Williams (1989)reported that in over one million high school friendship pairs, only a few hundred were interracial.

In terms of racial segregation,some argue that residential segregation may persist because African Americans:

During the 1960s and 1970s,Black men showed a significant ________ in income.

Nearly one in ________ Black families was affluent in the United States in 1989.

In 2000,which race had the most female professionals?

Which decade saw a calming of the civil rights activism?

In the riots that followed the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles,who were the primary targets of the rioters?

Texaco made out-of-court settlements and set goals to hire Blacks and other minorities after its 1990s discrimination case.

This riot saw 34 people killed,thousands injured and hundreds of buildings burned and was one of the worst riots since 1943.

The theory of spatial assimilation claims that the more minorities assimilate,the more they would move into less segregated neighborhoods.

SNCC was by definition a ________ organization.