- 1. Who was the author of the book 'Slavery by Another Name'?
A) Ta-Nehisi Coates
B) Douglas A. Blackmon
C) Michelle Alexander
D) Bryan Stevenson
- 2. The book 'Slavery by Another Name' explores the practices of 'convict leasing' in which US state?
A) Mississippi
B) Georgia
C) Alabama
D) Louisiana
- 3. Which US president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
A) Andrew Jackson
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Ulysses S. Grant
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 4. What was the name of the Supreme Court case that upheld segregation under the doctrine of 'separate but equal'?
A) Brown v. Board of Education
B) Plessy v. Ferguson
C) Marbury v. Madison
D) Roe v. Wade
- 5. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution ratified?
A) 1875
B) 1885
C) 1865
D) 1850
- 6. Which organization was formed to advocate for the civil and political rights of African Americans during the early 20th century?
A) NRA
B) UNESCO
C) NAACP
D) ACLU
- 7. Which activist and leader co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957?
A) Rosa Parks
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Marcus Garvey
D) Malcolm X
- 8. Which civil rights legislation was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964?
A) Voting Rights Act
B) Civil Rights Act
C) Equal Pay Act
D) Immigration and Nationality Act
- 9. In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution granted African American men the right to do what?
A) Serve in the military
B) Vote
C) Attend public schools
D) Own property
- 10. Which US president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
A) Lyndon B. Johnson
B) Bill Clinton
C) Richard Nixon
D) John F. Kennedy
- 11. The United States officially abolished slavery with the ratification of which amendment to the Constitution?
A) Fourteenth Amendment
B) Twelfth Amendment
C) Fifteenth Amendment
D) Thirteenth Amendment
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