Houston Chronicle 1947

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Directions: Answer the multiple choice and technology-enhanced questions below to Check Your Understanding of the newspaper article you read today (Segregation Intensifies Suspicion and Distrust, Sociologist Asserts in Sweatt Hearing at Austin, May 1947).

When you have FINISHED, submit your work...and then CHECK YOUR SCORE.

Then USE your score to go back and REDO any questions you need to FIX in the unified classroom assignment itself BEFORE moving on to the last three paragraphs part of the assignment!

What is sociologist Robert Redfield's point of view regarding the social impact of segregated schools?

Separate but equal schools help young people develop strong citizenship.

We cannot know whether or not separate but equal schools would impact society positively or negatively.

Separate but equal schools make it harder for cultures to realize true equality for all.

Carpetbaggers have not had a positive effect on segregation in the south.  

Which of the following is NOT a claim made in paragraph 2 of the text?

People of different races are equally capable of becoming educated.  

Segregation in education is not likely to lead to a society in which members of all races can be equally successful.

Segregated schools provide less than full participation in the community of which a student is a member.

If America wants all its adults to be good citizens, it should work to end segregated schooling. 

How does the third paragraph develop Redfield's ideas about desegregation?

It shows that Redfield was more concerned about segregation in society than in schools.

It shows that Redfield wanted to base his conclusions about law schools on examination of how people actually act in courtrooms and other spaces "under the law".

It shows that Redfield needed to work to find evidence for segregation around him in order to be able to make his case about its societal effects.

It shows that Redfield relied on observation to show the validity of his ideas about the effects of different approaches to changing society.

What connection does Robert Redfield make between American society and the desegregation of schools?

The United States can not claim that it is raising the next generation to be strong citizens if it does not offer truly equal and equitable opportunities for all. 

By coming to the South as carpetbaggers, Northerners had actually maintained and strengthened racial divisions in Southern society.

Pressure from American institutions like the University of Chicago, The American Association of Law Schools and the NAACP would help desegregate society to make America great again.  

The United States needed to fight for desegregation in order to make the South a true part of America.

What is sociologist Robert Redfield's point of view regarding the social impact of segregated schools?  

Separate but equal schools help young people develop strong citizenship.

We cannot know whether or not separate but equal schools would impact society positively or negatively.

Separate but equal schools make it harder for cultures to realize true equality for all.

Carpetbaggers have not had a positive effect on segregation in the south.  

Which of the following is NOT a claim made in paragraph 2 of the text? 

People of different races are equally capable of becoming educated.  

Segregation in education is not likely to lead to a society in which members of all races can be equally successful.

Segregated schools provide less than full participation in the community of which a student is a member.

If America wants all its adults to be good citizens, it should work to end segregated schooling. 

How does the third paragraph develop Redfield's ideas about desegregation?

It shows that Redfield was more concerned about segregation in society than in schools.

It shows that Redfield wanted to base his conclusions about law schools on examination of how people actually act in courtrooms and other spaces "under the law".

It shows that Redfield needed to work to find evidence for segregation around him in order to be able to make his case about its societal effects.

It shows that Redfield relied on observation to show the validity of his ideas about the effects of different approaches to changing society.

What connection does Robert Redfield make between American society and the desegregation of schools?

The United States can not claim that it is raising the next generation to be strong citizens if it does not offer truly equal and equitable opportunities for all. 

By coming to the South as carpetbaggers, Northerners had actually maintained and strengthened racial divisions in Southern society.

Pressure from American institutions like the University of Chicago, The American Association of Law Schools and the NAACP would help desegregate society to make America great again.  

The United States needed to fight for desegregation in order to make the South a true part of America.