Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom
African American Studies · Unit 3 · Paper 1

The Practice of Freedom unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 36 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
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Wilmington coup (1898)

2

GI Bill's unequal administration

3

Black officeholding during Reconstruction

4

Black church as institution

5

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

6

Tuskegee Airmen

7

Blues and jazz as historical sources

8

Compromise of 1877

9

Disenfranchisement mechanisms

10

Zora Neale Hurston

11

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956)

12

Harlem Renaissance debates

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Fannie Lou Hamer and the MFDP (1964)

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Restrictive covenants and Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Chicago Defender

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Emmett Till (1955)

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION 2: Non-Text Source (3 points). Examine the description of the image. The image is a press photograph of Jesse Owens running the 200-meter race at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany — the Black American sprinter mid-stride on the track before the Olympic crowd.

A. Describe the broader historical context of the image.

B. Describe one example of an African American athlete, other than Jesse Owens, who broke discriminatory barriers in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries.

C. Using a specific example, explain how African Americans’ increased access to education contributed to overcoming discrimination in the twentieth or twenty-first century.