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In the late nineteenth century, southern Democrats redrew the boundaries of congressional districts to __________.
In the late nineteenth century, African-American Roman Catholics __________.
Which of the following was true of Booker T. Washington?
A graduate of Hampton Institute was most likely to become a __________.
The walls at Hampton Institute were decorated with pictures of __________.
Social Darwinism was used to justify __________.
In the late nineteenth century, most African-American children __________.
Why did most rural students in the South attend school for six or fewer months per year?
Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, was a __________.
Whose sculpture Ethiopia Awakening was influenced by contemporary pan-Africanism and the conflation of Ethiopia with all of Africa?
Who led an interracial religious and social movement in the 1920s and 1930s which established "heavens" to feed the hungry in the East and Midwest?
Although their political views on the issue converged over time, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans were initially usually at odds over the question of
Who wrote The History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, the first historical study by an African American to be taken seriously by American scholars?
Which presidential candidate did black leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, and Alexander Walters support in the 1912 election?
In June 1921, an altercation described by several observers as a "race war," which left at least nine whites and twenty-one blacks dead, broke out in what town?
Lasting almost two weeks and leaving over three dozen people dead, the worst race riot of the post-World War I period took place in
Whose light skin allowed him to investigate the scenes of lynchings, the gruesome nature of which he chronicled in his book, Rope and Foggot, A Biography of Judge Lynch?
Which Afro-Caribbean immigrant from Puerto Rico amassed one of the largest archives of material related to people of African descent and helped to found the Negro Society for Historical Research?
Who chaired the NAACP's Legal Redress Committee in the 1910s?
Who wrote the lines, "If we must die, let it not be like hogs, ...Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying but fighting back"?