AAMS 300 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
55 year old executive director of the SCLC; urged student leaders who had encouraged
sit-ins to create their own organization; director of NAACP - Correct Answers -Ella baker
"What shall I tell my children who are black" founded the ebony museum of Chicago;
black aesthetic is important to her to have something to pass down to children - Correct
Answers -Margaret Burroughs
African American scholar was known for covering issues of race and gender in the
American South in the late 1800s. She also argued that men shouldn't fear women
attaining more education - Correct Answers -Anna Julia cooper
Born and raised in a largely white New England town; believed that African Americans
should strive for full rights immediately; founded the NAACP - Correct Answers -WEB
Du Bois
"Up from slavery" - Correct Answers -Booker t Washington
Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once
blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head
of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." - Correct Answers -
Booker t Washington
A SNCC organizer and former sharecropper who had been evicted from her farm after
registering to vote & thrown in jail for urging other African Americans to register as well;
helped organize the Mississippi freedom Democratic Party & challenged the legality of
the segregated Democratic Party at the democratic convention - Correct Answers -
Fannie Lou hamer
A voice from the south - Correct Answers -Anna Julia Cooper
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain - Correct Answers -Langston Hughes
A prominent African American lawyer, dean of Howard university law school, and
NAACP litigation director who played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws,
which earned him the title the man who killed jim crow - Correct Answers -Charles
Hamilton Houston
The Souls of Black Folk - Correct Answers -W.E.B. DuBois
ANSWERS
55 year old executive director of the SCLC; urged student leaders who had encouraged
sit-ins to create their own organization; director of NAACP - Correct Answers -Ella baker
"What shall I tell my children who are black" founded the ebony museum of Chicago;
black aesthetic is important to her to have something to pass down to children - Correct
Answers -Margaret Burroughs
African American scholar was known for covering issues of race and gender in the
American South in the late 1800s. She also argued that men shouldn't fear women
attaining more education - Correct Answers -Anna Julia cooper
Born and raised in a largely white New England town; believed that African Americans
should strive for full rights immediately; founded the NAACP - Correct Answers -WEB
Du Bois
"Up from slavery" - Correct Answers -Booker t Washington
Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once
blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head
of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." - Correct Answers -
Booker t Washington
A SNCC organizer and former sharecropper who had been evicted from her farm after
registering to vote & thrown in jail for urging other African Americans to register as well;
helped organize the Mississippi freedom Democratic Party & challenged the legality of
the segregated Democratic Party at the democratic convention - Correct Answers -
Fannie Lou hamer
A voice from the south - Correct Answers -Anna Julia Cooper
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain - Correct Answers -Langston Hughes
A prominent African American lawyer, dean of Howard university law school, and
NAACP litigation director who played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws,
which earned him the title the man who killed jim crow - Correct Answers -Charles
Hamilton Houston
The Souls of Black Folk - Correct Answers -W.E.B. DuBois
