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* Historians sometimes forget that history is conunu- ally being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have theirown history, of course, which may impinge in unex-
5)pected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict when "new pasts" will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history.
* In the fall of 1954, for example, C. Vann Woodward delivered a lecture series at the University of Virginia
10)which challenged the prevailling dogma concerning the history, continuity, and uniformity of racial segregation in the South. He argued that the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not only codified traditional practice but also were a determined
15)effort to erase the considerable progress made by Black people during and after Reconstruction in the 1870's. This revisionist view of Jim Crow legislation grew in Part from the research that Woodward had done for the NAACP legal campaign during its preparation for
20)Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward's lectures. The lectures were soon published as a book. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a
25) preface to the second revised edition. Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition "had begun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Revolu- tion published in 1776." That was a bit like hearing
30)Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense, which had a comparable impact. Although Common Sense also had a mass readership. Paine had intended to reach and inspire: he was not a historian, and thus not concerned with accuracy or the
35) dangers of historical anachronism. Yet, like Paine, Woodward had an unerring sense of the revolutionary moment, and of how historical evidence could under- mine the mythological tradition that was crushing the dreams of new social possibilities. Martin Luther King,
40)Jr.. testified to the profound effect of The StrangeCareer of Jim Crow on the civil rights movement by praising the book and quoting it frequently.
1. The "new pasts" mentioned in line 6 can best bedescribed as the
(A) occurrence of events extremely similar to pastevents
(B) history of the activities of studying, interpreting, andreading new historical writing
(C) change in people's understanding of the past due tomore recent historical writing
(D) overturning of established historical interpretationsby politically motivated politicians
(E) difficulty of predicting when a given historicalinterpretation will be overturned
2. It can be inferred from the passage that the "prevaillingdogma" (line 10) held that
(A) Jim Crow laws were passed to give legal status towell-established discriminatory practices in theSouth
(B) Jim Crow laws were passed to establish order anduniformity in the discriminatory practices ofdifferent southern states.
(C) Jim Crow laws were passed to erase the social gainsthat Black people had achieved since Reconstruction
(D) the continuity of racial segregation in the South wasdisrupted by passage of Jim Crow laws
(E) the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries were passed to reverse the effectof earlier Jim Crow laws
3. Which of the following is the best example of writingthat is likely to be subject to the kinds of "handicaps"referred to in line 27?
(A) A history of an auto manufacturing plant written by an employee during an autobuying boom
(B) A critique of a statewide school-desegregation planwritten by an elementary school teacher in that state
(C) A newspaper article assessing the historicalimportance of a United States President writtenshortly after the President has taken office
(D) A scientific paper describing the benefits of acertain surgical technique written by the surgeonwho developed the technique
(E) Diary entries narrating the events of a battle writtenby a soldier who participated in the battle
4. The passage suggests that C. Vann Woodward andThomas Paine were similar in all of the following waysEXCEPT:
(A) Both had works published in the midst of importanthistorical events.
(B) Both wrote works that enjoyed widespreadpopularity.
(C) Both exhibited an understanding of the relevance ofhistorical evidence to contemporary issues.
(D) The works of both had a significant effect on eventsfollowing their publication.
(E) Both were able to set aside worries about historicalanachronism in order to reach and inspire.
5. The attitude of the author of the passage toward thework of C. Vann Woodward is best described as one of
(A) respectful regard
(B) qualified approbation
(C) implied skepticism
(D) pointed criticism
(E) fervent advocacy
6. Which of the following best describes the new ideaexpressed by C. Vann Woodward in his University ofVirginia lectures in 1954?
(A) Southern racial segregation was continuous anduniform.
(B) Black people made considerable progress only afterReconstruction.
(C) Jim Crow legislation was conventional in nature.
(D) Jim Crow laws did not go as far in codifyingtraditional practice as they might have.
(E) Jim Crow laws did much more than merely reinforcea tradition of segregation.
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