QUIZ ON BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

Take this quiz and then go to the bottom of the post and
it will give you the answers. This is a quiz that everyone
should take, it will tell you a very meaningful story!!
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1. What Party was founded as the antislavery
Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln
who signed the emancipation proclamation
that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations
that occur in black communities today?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

3. What Party passed the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the
U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom,
citizenship, and the right to vote?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of
1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection
from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial
discrimination in public accommodations, and
was the Party of most blacks prior to the
1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet
Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T.
Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

5. What was the Party of the founding fathers
of the NAACP?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

6. What was the Party of President Dwight
Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to
Arkansas to desegregate schools,
established the Civil Rights Commission in
1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl
Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which
resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of
Education decision ending school
segregation?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

7. What Party, by the greatest percentage,
passed the Civil Rights Act and the Civil
Rights Acts of the 1960’s?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

8. What was the Party of President Richard
Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative
Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia
Plan that established goals and timetables?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

9. What is the Party of President George W.
Bush who supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s
University of Michigan Affirmative Action
decision, and is spending over $500 billion to
fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help
black Americans prosper, including school
vouchers, the faith-based initiative, home
ownership, and small business ownership?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party

10. What Party fought to keep blacks in
slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux
Klan?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party

11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used
fraud, whippings, lynching, murder,
intimidation, and mutilation to get the black
vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim
Crow laws which legalized racial
discrimination and denied blacks their rights
as citizens?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party

12. What was the Party of President Franklin
D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman
who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to
establish a permanent Civil Rights
Commission?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party

13. What was the Party of President Lyndon
Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. “that [N-word] preacher” because he
opposed the Viet Nam War; and President
John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957
Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as
president opposed the 1963 March on
Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
after becoming president and the FBI
investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a
communist?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party

14. What is the Party of current Senator
Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku
Klux Klan, Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who
hoisted the Confederate flag over the state
capitol in South Carolina when he was the
governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who
recently insulted black judicial nominees by
calling them “Neanderthals” while blocking
their appointments?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party

15. What was the Party of President Bill
Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after
the first bombing of the World Trade Center in
1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and
Kosovo without Congressional approval,
vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before
signing it, and refused to comply with a court
order to have shipping companies develop an
Affirmative Action Plan?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party

16. What is the Party of Vice President Al
Gore whose father voted against the Civil
Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the
2000 election as confirmed by a second
recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald”
and a consortium of major news
organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil
Rights Commission that blacks were not
denied the right to vote?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party

17. What Party is against the faith-based
initiative, against school vouchers, against
school prayers, and takes the black vote for
granted without ever acknowledging their
racist past or apologizing for trying to expand
slavery, lynching blacks and passing the
Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused
great harm to blacks?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party

THE ANSWERS TO THIS QUIZ ARE ALL 'B'