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- In the late nineteenth century, southern Democrats redrew the boundaries of congressional districts to __________.
- In the late nineteenth century, African-American Roman Catholics __________.
- Which of the following was true of Booker T. Washington?
- A graduate of Hampton Institute was most likely to become a __________.
- The walls at Hampton Institute were decorated with pictures of __________.
- Social Darwinism was used to justify __________.
- In the late nineteenth century, most African-American children __________.
- Why did most rural students in the South attend school for six or fewer months per year?
- Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, was a __________.
- Whose sculpture Ethiopia Awakening was influenced by contemporary pan-Africanism and the conflation of Ethiopia with all of Africa?
- Who led an interracial religious and social movement in the 1920s and 1930s which established "heavens" to feed the hungry in the East and Midwest?
- Although their political views on the issue converged over time, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans were initially usually at odds over the question of
- Who wrote The History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, the first historical study by an African American to be taken seriously by American scholars?
- Which presidential candidate did black leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, and Alexander Walters support in the 1912 election?
- In June 1921, an altercation described by several observers as a "race war," which left at least nine whites and twenty-one blacks dead, broke out in what town?
- Lasting almost two weeks and leaving over three dozen people dead, the worst race riot of the post-World War I period took place in
- Whose light skin allowed him to investigate the scenes of lynchings, the gruesome nature of which he chronicled in his book, Rope and Foggot, A Biography of Judge Lynch?
- Which Afro-Caribbean immigrant from Puerto Rico amassed one of the largest archives of material related to people of African descent and helped to found the Negro Society for Historical Research?
- Who chaired the NAACP's Legal Redress Committee in the 1910s?
- Who wrote the lines, "If we must die, let it not be like hogs, ...Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying but fighting back"?