What was the name of the character that was used to portray and spread racist stereotypes about black people?
Jim Crow
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
Abraham Lincoln
What was the name of the 1896 court case that ruled segregation was legal if it was 'separate but equal'?
Sweatt v Painter
Plessy v Ferguson
McLaurin v Oklahoma State Regents
Which city would only allow African Americans to vote if they owned a property?
New York
Birmingham
Chicago
What was the effect of the grandfather clause, which related to voting rights?
It enforced a poll tax on anyone who had a grandfather who had previously voted
It enforced a literacy test on anyone who had a grandfather who had previously voted
It allowed an individual who had a father or grandfather who had previously voted to have unrestricted voting rights
Which state saw over 40 bombings of prominent African Americans go unpunished?
Texas
Oklahoma
Alabama
What percentage of African Americans worked in the service industries?
12
32
20
What was the name of the lawyer who fought for equality alongside the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Thurgood Marshall
George McLaurin
Heman Sweatt
On average, how much less than white teachers did African American teachers get paid?
20 per cent
30 per cent
12 per cent
What was one of the restrictions placed on George McLaurin at the University of Oklahoma?
He could not enter the building
He wasn’t allowed to eat there
He had to sit outside the classroom when learning
In what year were African American men given the constitutional right to vote?
1870
1863
1896