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scienceeasy · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

Why did the Orangeburg Massacre take place?

A) Students protested a lynching of a local political activist.
B) Students at a predominantly black college protested a bowling facility.
C) The police attempted to stop college students from voting in a local town.
D) White politicians in the area attempted to reintroduce segregation in schools.

Question 2

Why did colleges begin to form black studies departments in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

A) They began to feel that black studies were important, even before blacks became students there.
B) They were forced to form black studies departments by the Supreme Court.
C) More blacks entered white colleges and began to demand courses of relevance to them.
D) Local NAACP groups demanded such programs or they would riot and form protests.