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First Choice 2004

Test Your Knowledge: Race

1. How many people checked off two or more races in the last census?
2.3 million
4.6 million
5.8 million
7.9 million

2. Which constitutional amendment guarantees minorities the right to vote?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
None of the above

3. Who was the U.S. Chief Justice when the high court ruled segregated schools are "inherently unequal" in Brown v. Board of Education?
John Marshall
William Rehnquist
William Howard Taft
Earl Warren

4. Which of these states has the largest Hispanic population?
California
Florida
New York
Texas

5. From the 1880s to the 1960s most states enforced segregation using so-called "Jim Crow" laws. Who was Jim Crow?
A segregationist leader from Mississippi
A Ku Klux Klan leader
A black character in minstrel shows

6. What percentage of racial hate crimes were against blacks in 2002?
28 percent
48 percent
68 percent
88 percent

  
         

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