How is Oprah Winfrey an example of black success in the ...

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How is Oprah Winfrey an example of black success in the twenty-first century?
 
  A) Her writing career has made her the most highly acclaimed writer in the world.
  B) Her acting career has made her the most highly acclaimed performer in the world.
  C) Her singing career has made her the most successful black musician in the world.
  D) Her media empire has made her the richest African-American woman in the world.

Question 2

How did Nixon relate to black struggles and the civil rights movement during his political tenure? In what ways did he symbolize the post-World War II Republican agenda regarding race relations?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the Nixon presidency as pro-civil rights because Nixon wanted to secure black voters.
2. Note that he opposed forced busing of white and black students to high schools as a way to placate southern whites.
3. Explain Nixon's southern strategy which entailed bringing enticing traditional white southern Democrats into the Republican Party by emphasizing the problems of civil rights legislation.
4. Point out that he symbolized the Republican Party attempt to destroy the New Deal coalition that had elected every Democrat to the presidency since FDR.
5. Conclude that Nixon was relatively atypical as a Republican president since U.S Grant for his attempt to meet the needs of black voters.

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