Diversity Chpt. 6 African Americans

Unlike the urban uprisings of the 1960s, those following the acquittals of police officers in the Rodney King case:

included attacks directly on whites and on other minority groups

Rosa Parks, a seamstress and NAACP member, is famous for:

refusing to give up her seat for a white man

Theoretically, no person, law, or specific group is responsible for:

de facto segregation

According to adherents of the Black Power movement, which of the following methods is best for empowering black Americans?

Liberating themselves on their own terms without regard to what white Americans want

The advocates of Black Power identified the cause of racial inequality in the United States as:

institutional discrimination and white racism

The civil rights movement was based on a philosophy of:

nonviolent civil disobedience

Among the following, the highest percentage of poverty can be found among:

African american children

The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision overturned the principle of ______ established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

separate but equal

African Americans and other minority groups of color have been adversely affected by the national loss of jobs in the ______.

manufacturing sector

The Black Power movement was an important move toward:

pluralism

Black Nationalism is more than simply a reaction to a failed dream. It is:

a different way of defining what it means to be black in America

The most visible enemy of African Americans as they entered the 20th century was:

the Jim Crow system in the south

The Nation of Islam and other Black Power groups attempted to establish:

racial separation

Which of the following leaders is most closely associated with the Black Power movement?

Malcolm X

Which group of people did the author of the textbook suggest are more like "invaders"?

illegal immigrants

______ is to de facto segregation as ______ is to de jure segregation:

Whites and blacks choosing to attend different churches; laws requiring blacks to sit at the back of the bus

Female-headed households tend to be poor because:

all of the above

Which influential African American served as counsel for the NAACP, was integral in attacking Jim Crow, and was later appointed to the United States Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall

Which of the following was not a significant purpose served by the creation of Black Nationalism?

To encourage white Americans to work on balancing black-white inequities

The unemployment rate for African Americans is about ______ as that for European Americans.

twice as high

The concept of the "urban underclass" tends to treat the problems of African Americans as:

problems that grow out of the economy and that are shared by other poor urbanites

Fannie Lou Hamer of Mississippi founded the:

freedom party

The culture of poverty theory argues that poverty is perpetuated by which of the following characteristics?

all of the above