Question 1
How did Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas respond to the Supreme Court's rejection of school segregation?
A) He ordered National Guard troops to help African-American students enroll at Central High School.
B) He ordered National Guard troops to stop African-American students from enrolling at Central High School.
C) He asked other governors to honor the decision because it was the law of the land.
D) He appealed to President Eisenhower for help integrating the schools.
Question 2
Who defended the five states whose policies were challenged by the NAACP in 1954?
A) Lloyd Gaines
B) Charles Hamilton Houston
C) John W. Davis
D) Thurgood Marshall
Question 3
Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall used all of the following tactics in the courts to chip away at segregation EXCEPT
A) force states to pay all teachers the same wage regardless of race.
B) demonstrate that schools were not providing equal accommodations for black and white students as required under Plessy v. Ferguson.
C) sue the federal government for its failure to force the states to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) make segregation as expensive as possible to the states by forcing them to live up to separate but equal.
Question 4
Which NAACP leader eventually became a Supreme Court Justice?
A) W.E.B. Du Bois
B) Charles Hamilton Houston
C) Thurgood Marshall
D) Lloyd Gaines
Charles Darwin may be dead and gone but a recent write-in campaign has pitted him against Republican
Othniel Charles Marsh
Charles Darwin
In the summer of 1793, a yellow fever epidemic struck Philadelphia, killing nearly 4,000. Tens of th
The first commercially successful typewriter, manufactured in quantity beginning in 1874, surely fue
Charles E. Coughlin, the “Radio Priest,” was the father of conservative “talk radio.”