Exam 3: Politics

Which dominant black protest organization,which preceded the modern Civil Rights Movement and was founded in 1909 by black and white intellectuals,primarily battled racial domination in the courts?

What served as the institutional hub of the Civil Rights Movement?

What do Emmett Till,Charlie Lang,Ernest Green,and Henry Bedford all have in common?

Which of the following racial-ethnic groups is most likely to vote Republican?

Ella Baker referred to the nitty-gritty,tiresome,and unglamorous labor of chipping away at the white power structure day by day and door to door as what?

The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island,in which protestors demanded the island be released for the explicit development of Indian education,lasted how long?

What is the significance of the fact that the Women's Political Council had first conceived of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and had been planning it for months?

By the end of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's SNCC's)1964 Freedom Summer,many volunteers had been violently attacked,arrested,and even killed,indicating what?

In 1960,what percentage of Mississippi's black adults was registered to vote?

Jarrod is a 48-year-old wealthy,African American CEO.Which political party is he most likely to vote for?

How many citizens do sociologists estimate have been disenfranchised because they have felony convictions?

What was one of the outcomes of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

What is a result of cases like Shaw v.Reno 1993)and Miller v.Johnson 1995),which outlaw only race-based gerrymandering?

Why did Democrats begin mirroring Republicans in their approach to racial politics?

What was the name of the multiracial organization founded on the campuses of the University of California-Berkeley and San Francisco State College,which challenged these campuses' Eurocentric curricula?

Postville,Iowa,has seen a rapid influx of Latino residents in recent years.The "threat hypothesis" would predict that Postville's white residents may react to this change in which of the following ways?

Over the entire span of U.S.history,1,895 people have been elected to the Senate.Of these senators,only what percent were nonwhite?

With roughly one in four votes cast by nonwhites,which presidential election was the most racially diverse in U.S.history?

What were the two goals of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's SNCC's)1964 Freedom Summer?

President Kennedy coined the phrase "a rising tide lifts all boats" to refer to political preference of universal,rather than race-based,policies as a strategy to eradicate inequality.Which policy most closely reflects that strategy?