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1. The NAACP attorney who worked with Harry T. Moore on civil rights cases, including the Groveland rape case, was: |
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a. Medgar Evers |
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b. Johnnie Cochran |
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c. Thurgood Marshall |
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d. A. Philip Randolph |
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| 2. Sheriff Willis McCall was accused of doing what to two of the Groveland defendants: |
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a. shooting them in an alleged escape attempt |
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b. arresting them for assaulting a police officer |
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c. testifying on their behalf that they were innocent |
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d. beating them up |
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e. none of the above |
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| 3. What makes the Harry T. Moore case unique is: |
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a. he was the first NAACP official killed |
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b. he and his wife, Harriette, were the only husband and wife to give their lives in the civil rights effort. |
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c. he was killed because he was a civil rights leader, not just because he was black |
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d. all of the above |
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| 4. Some of the most important years of Harry Moore's youth were spent: |
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a. studying poetry in Harlem with Langston Hughes |
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b. picking oranges on his father's citrus grove |
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c. living with his three aunts in Jacksonville |
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d. serving in the U.S. Army in World War II. |
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| 5. In the Groveland case, four black youths were charged with: |
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a. raping a white woman |
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b. starting a race riot in Groveland |
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c. attacking a white sheriff |
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d. wolf whistling at a white girl |
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| 6. In 1951, the KKK set off so many dynamite bombs in Florida that the press called it: |
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a. Armageddon |
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b. The Florida Terror |
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c. white backlash |
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d. a travesty of justice |
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| 7. Evangeline Morre, Harry's youngest daughter, may have been one of the last people in the world to learn about the Moore bombing, because: |
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a. she was away at college |
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b. her mother didn't tell her, wanting to protect her |
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c. the FBI refused to tell her |
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d. she was riding a train from Washington D.C. to Florida |
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| 8. The number of new black voters that Harry T. Moore registered in the Democratic Party was: |
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a. 5000 |
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b. 500,000 |
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c. 100,000 |
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d. 1 million |
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| 9. In 1946, when an aide to Florida Governor Millard Caldwell wrote to a Brevard County official, asking him to "give me the dope" on Harry Moore, the official replied that Moore was: |
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a. a negro organizer and troublemaker |
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b. a political hack |
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c. an outstanding educator |
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d. a role model for young blacks |
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| 10. Because of its dominance in Florida politics, Harry Moore urged blacks to register in: |
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a. the electoral college |
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b. the Democratic Party |
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c. the Republican Party |
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d. the Reform Party |
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