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Randall Robinson, Can a Black Family Be a Legal Nuisance?

Randall Robinson, Can a Black Family Be a Legal Nuisance?

Read Can a Black Family Be a Legal Nuisance? and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Robinson is a black man attending law school

at Suffolk University in Boston.

at the University of Alabama.

at Yale.

at Harvard.

2. Which of the following students are not among Robinson’s classmates?

Rudolph Pierce, future Massachusetts judge

Samuel Berger, future National Security Adviser to President Bill Clinton

Henry Sanders, future Alabama state senator

Paul Fried, future Solicitor General of the United States

3. Who asks the law professor if black people moving into a neighborhood constitutes an “actionable nuisance”?

The author, Randall Robinson

Paul Fried

George W. Bush

Mark Joseph Green

4. How does the class react after the question is posed?

The class calmly discusses the issue.

A near-riot ensues.

The class enthusiastically agrees that blacks in a white neighborhood would constitute an “actionable nuisance.”

Many students appear uncomfortable and eventually leave.

5. How do the black students in the class behave during this period?

They outwardly agree that blacks moving into a neighborhood would constitute an “actionable nuisance,” though they secretly disagree.

They sit in silence.

They stage a protest by turning their backs to the professor.

They shout angrily but are ignored.