Political Science
This 1964 legislation opened legal access to higher education for students of color by prohibiting discrimination in federally-funded programs.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
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Transfer student Julian Day organizes a campus-wide boycott of a company due to their ties to this South African regime.
What is Apartheid?
This California law requires at least 50% of educational expenses to be spent on instruction.
What is the 50% Law?
This was the number of California Community Colleges created in the 1960's alone.
What is 30?
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This real-life event occurred just days before "A World Alike" highlighting the episode's anti-apartheid themes.
What is the release of Nelson Mandela from prison?
This poet asked, “What happens to A Dream Deferred?”
Who is Langston Hughes?
This California system of public education has the lowest per student funding.
What is the California Community Colleges?
True or False. Faculty, Students, and Classified staff were included in all levels of community college government since their inception.
What is FALSE?
This percentage represents how many students of color enrolled in community colleges during the late 1980s who did NOT complete a degree or transfer to a four-year institution.
What is 65-75%?
This movement saw African Americans leave the rural South for cities like Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
What is the Second Great Migration?
This is one way Proposition 13 impacted tax collection.
a) What is it wiped out previous special assessments?
b) What is it reduced property taxes to 1% of the assessed value of the property?
c) What is it limited property tax increases to 2%?
d) What is it required a 2/3rds majority to raise taxes?
The vast majority of Jeopardy contestants come from which Continent?
What is North America?
These institutions graduated 80% of Black students in the 1960s and still 50% in the 1980s because they were designed for Black student success.
What are HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)?
Founded in 1966, this organization was co-founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale at Merritt College.
What is the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense?
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The ethical dilemma faced by Kim in this episode involves accepting this from the very company being targeted by the campus protest.
What is a scholarship?
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The revolutionary series “A Different World” focuses on the lives of African American students at this fictional HBCU.
What is Hillman College?
Established in 1979, this cabinet-level agency centralized federal education policy, funding distribution, and enforcement of civil rights protections in education.
What is the Department of Education?
This three-word term was used by a Vietnam Veteran to describe the G.I. Bill as a symbolic gesture that failed to live up to its promise of economic mobility.
What is white man tokenism?
Ten years after the passage of proposition 13, voters did this do to ensure a guaranteed level of K-14 funding.
What is Passed Proposition 98?
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Initially infatuated with the protest organizer, this character cancels their date after learning the boycott threatens a friend's scholarship.
Who is Whitley (or Whitley Gilbert)?
This codified set of topics relates to the rights of classified staff and students.
What is 9+1?