IAS Final Study Guide Exam 2026
Questions and Answers
TRM Howard - Correct answer-Created/developed an all black town known as
Mound Bayou. Brought Bayou it's first public pool, insurance company, zoo and
more. Known for being a great orator, it's thought that Dr. King taken cues from
Howard.
Rosa Parks/Inspiration - Correct answer-She was so emotionally outraged by the
story of Till told by Howard that this is what encouraged her to take her famous
stand against seating segregation on busses.
Rosa Parks known for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person helped
start the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Aims of the CRM vs BPM - Correct answer-Civil Rights Movement - CRM
believed in winning freedom through integrating into the larger White society, the
CRM ended in 1968
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,Black Power Movement - The BPM thought that establishing separate, Black-
controlled community institutions was the better way forward.
Aims of the CRM - More Specifically - Correct answer-CRM - Ideology -
Integrationist
Values - Individualism
Goals - Desegregation
Strategies - Litigation - Moral Suasion
Tactics - Sit ins / direct non-violence / boycotts
Identity - Negro
Leader - Dr. King
Dates - 1954 - 1968
Aims of the BPM - More Specifically - Correct answer-Ideology - Nationalist
Values - Collectivism
Goals - Community Control
Strategies - Close Ranks / African Centered Separation
Tactics - Militant Populist Uprisings/ Quid Pro Quo
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,Identity - Black
Leader - Malcolm X
Dates - 1965 - 1975
James Meredith - Correct answer-He was a civil rights advocate who spurred a riot
at the University of Mississippi. The riot was caused by angry whites who did not
want Meredith to register at the university. The result was forced government
action, showing that segregation was no longer government policy.
James Meredith became the first Black person to integrate into the University of
Mississippi (Ol' Miss) in 1961
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - Correct answer-Legalized segregation in publicly
owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal."
Brown v. Board of Education - Correct answer-1954 - The Supreme Court
overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are
inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
First Black Student Union - Correct answer-Briefly, students at San Francisco State
College changed the name of the "Negro Student Union" to the "Black Student
Union" as early as 1965. This union was supported by Marianna Waddy and Jimmy
Garrett.
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, Important events of 1965 - Correct answer-First Black Student Union - San
Francisco State College
Black Power Movement
Watt's Rebellion
Votings Rights Act of 1965
The Killing of Malcolm X
Start of the Black Campus Movement
Central Arguments - Hudson Weems - Correct answer-Africana Womanism -
Spoke about how black feminists were not jeered at because they were trying to
help get womans rights, but simply because they were black.
African Womanism - Questionable concept due to it's improper naming.
Three Approaches to Africana Studies - Correct answer-Black Consciousness and
Community Orientation -
Consistent with the idea in education. Implicitlya separatist in tone and theme and
promoted democracy and equitable integration.
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Questions and Answers
TRM Howard - Correct answer-Created/developed an all black town known as
Mound Bayou. Brought Bayou it's first public pool, insurance company, zoo and
more. Known for being a great orator, it's thought that Dr. King taken cues from
Howard.
Rosa Parks/Inspiration - Correct answer-She was so emotionally outraged by the
story of Till told by Howard that this is what encouraged her to take her famous
stand against seating segregation on busses.
Rosa Parks known for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person helped
start the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Aims of the CRM vs BPM - Correct answer-Civil Rights Movement - CRM
believed in winning freedom through integrating into the larger White society, the
CRM ended in 1968
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,Black Power Movement - The BPM thought that establishing separate, Black-
controlled community institutions was the better way forward.
Aims of the CRM - More Specifically - Correct answer-CRM - Ideology -
Integrationist
Values - Individualism
Goals - Desegregation
Strategies - Litigation - Moral Suasion
Tactics - Sit ins / direct non-violence / boycotts
Identity - Negro
Leader - Dr. King
Dates - 1954 - 1968
Aims of the BPM - More Specifically - Correct answer-Ideology - Nationalist
Values - Collectivism
Goals - Community Control
Strategies - Close Ranks / African Centered Separation
Tactics - Militant Populist Uprisings/ Quid Pro Quo
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,Identity - Black
Leader - Malcolm X
Dates - 1965 - 1975
James Meredith - Correct answer-He was a civil rights advocate who spurred a riot
at the University of Mississippi. The riot was caused by angry whites who did not
want Meredith to register at the university. The result was forced government
action, showing that segregation was no longer government policy.
James Meredith became the first Black person to integrate into the University of
Mississippi (Ol' Miss) in 1961
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - Correct answer-Legalized segregation in publicly
owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal."
Brown v. Board of Education - Correct answer-1954 - The Supreme Court
overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are
inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
First Black Student Union - Correct answer-Briefly, students at San Francisco State
College changed the name of the "Negro Student Union" to the "Black Student
Union" as early as 1965. This union was supported by Marianna Waddy and Jimmy
Garrett.
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, Important events of 1965 - Correct answer-First Black Student Union - San
Francisco State College
Black Power Movement
Watt's Rebellion
Votings Rights Act of 1965
The Killing of Malcolm X
Start of the Black Campus Movement
Central Arguments - Hudson Weems - Correct answer-Africana Womanism -
Spoke about how black feminists were not jeered at because they were trying to
help get womans rights, but simply because they were black.
African Womanism - Questionable concept due to it's improper naming.
Three Approaches to Africana Studies - Correct answer-Black Consciousness and
Community Orientation -
Consistent with the idea in education. Implicitlya separatist in tone and theme and
promoted democracy and equitable integration.
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