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Harlem Renaissance Quiz 2 (20 MCQs)

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1. Define "aspirations" as used in this sentence:His poems frequently featured the dreams and aspirations of those of the lower social-economic class.
2. Which statement explains how the end of World War I affected job opportunities for African-Americans?
3. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, intellectual, and artistic movement.
4. Who does the speaker in "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" say will benefit from his work?
5. Cite
6. Harlem is a Large Neighborhood located where?
7. What happened to American culture as a result of mass media?
8. In the 1500s England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and created a new church called
9. How did the Harlem Renaissance contribute to the empowerment of the African American community?
10. Read the excerpt below and then answer the question:Brown v. Board of Education Mr. Chief Justice Warren delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases come to us from the States of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. They are premised on different facts and different local conditions, but a common legal question justifies their consideration together in this consolidated opinion. In each of the cases, minors of the Negro race, through their legal representatives, seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public schools of their community on a nonsegregated basis. In each instance, they had been denied admission to schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to race. This segregation was alleged to deprive the plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment. In each of the cases other than the Delaware case, a three-judge federal district court denied relief to the plaintiffs on the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine announced by this Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537. Under that doctrine, equality of treatment is accorded when the races are provided substantially equal facilities, even though these facilities be separate. In the Delaware case, the Supreme Court of Delaware adhered to that doctrine, but ordered that the plaintiffs be admitted to the white schools because of their superiority to the Negro schools. The plaintiffs contend that segregated public schools are not "equal" and cannot be made "equal, " and that hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws. Because of the obvious importance of the question presented, the Court took jurisdiction. Argument was heard in the 1952 Term, and reargument was heard this Term on certain questions propounded by the Court. Reargument was largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868. It covered exhaustively consideration of the Amendment in Congress, ratification by the states, then-existing practices in racial segregation, and the views of proponents and opponents of the Amendment. This discussion and our own investigation convince us that, although these sources cast some light, it is not enough to resolve the problem with which we are faced. At best, they are inconclusive ..... [T]here are findings below that the Negro and white schools involved have been equalized, or are being equalized, with respect to buildings, curricula, qualifications and salaries of teachers, and other "tangible" factors. Our decision, therefore, cannot turn on merely a comparison of these tangible factors in the Negro and white schools involved in each of the cases. We must look instead to the effect of segregation itself on public education. In approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the Amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when Plessy v. Ferguson was written. We must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in American life throughout the Nation. Only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws ..... In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. We come then to the question presented:Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does. We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. This disposition makes unnecessary any discussion whether such segregation also violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Because these are class actions, because of the wide applicability of this decision, and because of the great variety of local conditions, the formulation of decrees in these cases presents problems of considerable complexity. On reargument, the consideration of appropriate relief was necessarily subordinated to the primary question-constitutionality of segregation in public education. We have now announced that such segregation is a denial of the equal protection of the laws. What is the plaintiffs' main concern about the state of public schools in Brown v. Board of Education?
11. Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the "do nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist. How does King support this claim?
12. "Who is America? You, me! / We are America! / To the enemy who would conquer us from without, / We say, / NO! / To the enemy who would divide / and conquer us from within, / we say, NO!"
13. This was a period in time when African American artists developed during the 1920s and the 1930s in New York City.
14. Who was Louis Armstrong?
15. What was a rent party?
16. When the speaker of "Song of the Son" says he has "returned to thee" in lines 9-10, he is most likely referring to
17. (US.28) From 1910 to 1930, many African Americans moved from the South to the North in a trend known as the Great Migration. One of the main causes of this move was
18. In 1927, this singer became the highest paid black artist in the world
19. Copies of documents and files that are kept for historical purposes
20. "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar focuses on .....
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