"When you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading ‘ white' and ‘colored'; when your first name becomes ‘nigger' and your middle name becomes ‘boy'…then you will understand why we find it so difficult to wait." This passage is from jailhouse correspondence from which civil rights activist?
A) Malcolm X
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Stokely Carmichael
D) Martin Luther King, Jr.
Answer: D) Martin Luther King, Jr.
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a. had never served in any of the colonial militias. b. were banned from militias in the southern colonies, but invited to serve in all of the New England ones. c. served in the militias of many colonies, North and South. d. served in the militias of the southern colonies, but not in those of New England, which had a negligible African-American population.
What point did W.E.B. Du Bois and Ralph Bunche agree on regarding Africa?
A) Africa should come under American control for its benefit. B) Blacks should migrate to Africa to gain more civil and political rights. C) African nations should be free from colonial control. D) Africa should serve as a model for race relations in the United States.
Ricci feared that the appeal in China of Christianity would be limited by what church demand?
a. Requiring all Chinese to be baptized. b. Requiring all Chinese to abandon their loyalty to the emperor. c. Demanding that Chinese abandon their ancestral shrines. d. Elimination of the civil service examination. e. Burial of emperor in elaborate tombs that included slain slave and servants.
Which statement is LEAST characteristic of the Greek polis?
a. It was composed of a central town or city, and the countryside surrounding it. b. It was a communal environment of individuals, some who were citizens with rights, others who were citizens without rights, and others who were not citizens. c. It played a significant role in unifying all Greeks throughout the entire region under a single government. d. It developed simultaneously with the creation of the new system of Greek military organization. e. It could vary in size from a few square miles to hundreds of square miles.