Why was US concern over Marxist and Communist revolutions more intensified in the Caribbean and Latin American states than in Africa as these regions decolonized? Why did the US under Kennedy, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush promote more direct intervention in areas like Cuba and Nicaragua than in places with brutal, authoritarian military regimes?
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Which of the following was NOT a part of the early development of the NAACP?
A) W.E.B. Du Bois became editor of the organization's journal, The Crisis. B) Du Bois's Niagara Movement merged with the NAACP in 1910. C) The organization sought to promote reform from within the political system. D) Only blacks took part in the organization.
The historian __________ expressed his strong sense of racial pride through his critique of higher education in his influential book, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)
A) W. E. B. Du Bois B) Marcus Garvey C) Benjamin Brawley D) Carter G. Woodson