Drill 18 · Multiple Choice · Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom
AP African American Studies: White Supremacist Violence and the Red Summer — Drill 18 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Practice AP African American Studies exam questions on lynching, the Red Summer of 1919, Ida B. Wells’s anti-lynching campaign, and Black responses to racial terror. These AP exam prep questions address essential Unit 3 themes of resistance, resilience, and white supremacist violence.
The following is from Ida B. Wells's address “Lynching, Our National Crime,” delivered at the National Negro Conference (the founding meeting of the NAACP) in New York City, June 1, 1909.
“The lynching record for a quarter of a century merits the thoughtful study of the American people. It presents three salient facts: First, lynching is color-line murder. Second, crimes against women is the excuse, not the cause. Third, it is a national crime and requires a national remedy. […]
The strong arm of the government must reach across state lines whenever unbridled lawlessness defies state laws. It must give to the individual under the Stars and Stripes the same measure of protection it gives to him when he travels in foreign lands. Federal protection of American citizenship is the remedy for lynching.”
Source: Ida B. Wells, “Lynching, Our National Crime,” Proceedings of the National Negro Conference, New York, May 31 – June 1, 1909.