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The zoot suit was popular among __________.

__________ played a key role in bringing issues that concerned African Americans to the attention of President Roosevelt.

Paul Robeson was committed to _________.

Tensions between the United States and Japan grew over the course of the 1930s as a result of __________.

Charles S. Johnson was a leading African-American __________.

How did A. Philip Randolph differ from most other African-American civil rights leaders of his time?

The NAACP __________.

The doctors who carried out the Tuskegee Study __________.

As the Great Depression took hold, white people in the South ___________.

Choose the main pattern of organization of the passage. Almost all effective interpersonal communication requires some degree of self-disclosure. The very process of making friends involves learning more about each other. In the broadest sense, self-disclosure means sharing biographical data, personal ideas, and feelings. Statements such as “I was 5′ 6″ in seventh grade” reveal biographical information—facts about you as an individual. Statements such as “I don’t think prisons ever really rehabilitate criminals” disclose personal ideas and reveal what and how you think. Statements such as “I get scared when I have to make a speech” disclose feelings. Biographical disclosures are easiest to make, for they are, in a manner of speaking, a matter of public record. It is statements about personal ideas and feelings that most people think of as self-disclosure.