What was NAACP director James Weldon Johnson referring to when he coined the term "The Red Summer of 1919"?
A) the wave of vicious assaults by whites against black communities
B) the attacks and arrests made on communists and anarchists during the First Red Scare
C) the deadly attacks made by rival gang members in organized crime over the sale of alcohol
D) the militant protests undertaken by suffragists as they tried to get the states to ratify the
Nineteenth Amendment
A
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Which of the following is true about the Scottsboro Nine case?
a. It only took a year to get their convictions overturned and have them outside again. b. It was the first racially charged case of such a kind in the state of Illinois. c. It involved spurious charges of rape against nine African American men and adolescents. d. The Scottsboro Nine were tried by a jury of their peers.
An opera is best defined as
A) a dramatic work combining text and musical score, with grand characters, spectacular stage action, and striking musical effects. B) a lengthy and complex composition for an orchestra. C) religious stories set to music with narrators and characters but no stage action. D) a choral composition with musical accompaniments. E) music originally intended for performance by a small group at aristocratic courts.
All of the following were essential to the Soviet defense against the Nazis EXCEPT
A) Allied support through the lend-lease program. B) German overconfidence of a swift victory, which left them trapped far inside Russia when winter came. C) the rapid relocation of Soviet industry to the east. D) outrage at the German treatment of Jewish minorities in eastern Europe. E) the willingness of the Russian people to fight the "great patriotic war."
The government bureau formed to organize Women's Committees during World War I was the
A) Red Cross. B) Commission on Interracial Cooperation. C) Women's Bureau. D) Council of National Defense.