What is Brown vs. Board of Education (of Topeka, Kansas)?
100
This law required organizations receiving government funding to increase minority representation.
What is affirmative action?
100
This is a stereotype that black people are childlike, helpless and potentially aggressive.
What is a black sambo?
100
For decades, whites have enforced black subordination using this technique.
What is violence?
100
This term refers to the phenomenon of children earning less money than their parents.
What is downward mobility?
200
This can increase access to good jobs, higher income, and other resources that can improve one's quality of life.
What is educational attainment?
200
This man famously proclaimed himself "one-eighth colored" and refused to move out of a "whites only" railway car.
Who is Homer Plessy?
200
In 2000, half of all Americans inaccurately believed that African Americans were this.
What is lazy or unmotivated?
200
Sociologists use this term to describe why people can be easy targets of discrimination based on how they look.
What is identifiability?
200
This music depicted the troubles and dissatisfaction of African slaves.
What are Negro Spirituals?
300
This woman successfully fought for the integration of all public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who is Daisy Bates?
300
These restricted the rights of freed slaves in southern states.
What are black codes?
300
In the early 1900s, scientists tried to prove that African Americans were biologically inferior to white people; but their lack of socioeconomic success in the U.S. was actually a result of these.
What are environmental factors?
300
This group subsidized home mortgages for whites but barred black people from owning their own homes.
What is the Federal Housing Authority (FHA)?
300
She directed a citizens' march of 2,000 people in Annapolis, MD, in 1942.
Who is Juanita Mitchell?
400
Ausdale and Feagin (2001) found that a child can be racist as early as this age.
What is 3 years old?
400
This amendment formally abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
This 1998 test measures biases that people might harbor without realizing it
What is the Implicit Association Test?
400
This term refers to the informal practices that make it difficult for residents of integrated neighborhoods or residents of less affluent neighborhoods with large numbers of African Americans to secure mortgages.
What is redlining?
400
These formal and informal practices excluded African Americans from jobs, education, and housing.
What are Jim Crow practices?
500
She was the first black person to attend the University of Alabama.
Who is Autherine Foster?
500
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a white man who sued because he felt affirmative action discriminated against him.
What Regents of the University of California v. Bakke?
500
When the percentage of black people in a community increases, Marylee Taylor found that whites' prejudice against them...
What is increases?
500
This 1996 California Proposition was fueled by the belief that "minorities" had received "more than their share" of opportunities and advantages at the expense of whites.
What is Proposition 209 (CA Civil Rights Initiative)?
500
This index is applied to metropolitan neighborhoods and measures ethnic minorities' accessibility to employment, a good education, and clean air.