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title: "AP African American Studies Visual-Source SAQ Practice"
description: "173 Short Answer Question with a visual sources written in the AP format, each scored part by part."
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subject: "AP African American Studies"
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# AP African American Studies Visual-Source SAQ Practice

## What the Visual-Source SAQ asks

The visual-source short-answer question is one of the two source-based SAQs in Section II of the AP African American Studies exam. You get one image, such as a photograph, a work of art, or a map, and answer three parts that start with the image and move out to the course around it.

- **13 min**: suggested time per SAQ
- **3 points**: one for each part, A to C
- **18%**: of your exam score, for all three SAQs

| Part | What it asks | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A: Describe | What the image shows, or its creator’s perspective or purpose | 1 pt |
| B: Explain | A course development or context the image connects to | 1 pt |
| C: Explain | A pattern across the course, such as a cause, a change, or a comparison | 1 pt |

## How Visual-Source SAQ practice works

1. **Read the source and question.** The image and all three parts, A through C, laid out the way the exam shows them.
2. **Write on a 13-minute timer.** About the time each SAQ gets on exam day. Pause it or turn it off, and your response saves as you go.
3. **Submit for a score out of 3.** Your response is scored against the scoring guidelines written for that question. Your first score is included.

## All 173 questions

### Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (19)
- [Catlett's Negro es Bello, the Black Campus movement and Black Studies](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001d0ba457859779f7f671&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Richard Aoki at Black Panther rally, 1968](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900230ca457859779f7f904&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Hunter College 1972 Black and Puerto Rican Studies course offerings](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002ac8a457859779f7fc4b&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American cultural expression and African heritage connection](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69003622a457859779f80133&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Hunter College's 1972 course schedule and Black–Puerto Rican organizing](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28651cc22236bd9d2f04a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Bingham's 1968 Richard Aoki photograph and African American Studies](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28786cc22236bd9d2f1be&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black cultural pride and identity expression, 1968](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2881acc22236bd9d2f26c&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Elizabeth Catlett's 'Negro es Bello' and Black identity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28891cc22236bd9d2f2f6&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Mansa Musa's wealth and trans-Saharan trade routes](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690014bea457859779f7f2db&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Catalan Atlas: Mali Empire wealth and trade routes](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002fc1a457859779f7fe6f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Mansa Musa and Mali Empire wealth in medieval cartography](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286c7cc22236bd9d2f0de&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Mansa Musa's wealth and Mali's trans-Saharan trade](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287f8cc22236bd9d2f245&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Queen Nzinga's diplomatic negotiations with Portuguese](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002b34a457859779f7fc7a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Queen Mother Pendant Mask, Benin Kingdom leadership](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002da9a457859779f7fd89&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Yaa Asantewa's 1900 speech on Ashanti resistance and women's roles](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900309aa457859779f7fece&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Mansa Musa and West African wealth in medieval European cartography](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001890a457859779f7f483&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1500–1900 slave trade routes map, plantation economies and diaspora](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690025c6a457859779f7fa2e&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Forced migration patterns and slave trade routes, 1525-1867](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690033bda457859779f80028&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Catalan Atlas depiction of West African rulers and wealth](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286eccc22236bd9d2f105&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)

### Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance (47)
- [Transatlantic slave trade routes and forced African migration](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002dbea457859779f7fd8f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African slave trade routes and volume patterns, 1500–1900](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2875ecc22236bd9d2f18e&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1788 Brookes slave ship diagram and abolitionist visual evidence](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001d5ea457859779f7f693&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Slave trade routes map, African departure zones and slave narratives](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690032cfa457859779f7ffc0&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Slave ship conditions and Middle Passage dehumanization](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287d5cc22236bd9d2f222&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Slave trade routes and African diaspora patterns, 1500-1900](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2888ccc22236bd9d2f2f3&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Amistad trial sketches and antislavery visual representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002760a457859779f7fadd&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1788 Brookes slave ship diagram and surveillance during the Middle Passage](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002937a457859779f7fb9f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Amistad captives' individual portraits and abolitionist imagery](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28657cc22236bd9d2f060&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Slave auction advertisement and domestic slave trade](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690027f2a457859779f7fb1a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1859 Charleston slave auction broadside and forced migration](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002bb2a457859779f7fcad&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Sugar production labor processes and enslaved workers](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900116fa457859779f7f166&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Racial classifications and enslaved labor commodification in Charleston](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001c9fa457859779f7f641&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Bisa Butler's textile portrait and African American quilting traditions](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001639a457859779f7f380&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American artistic traditions in contemporary religious iconography](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001c85a457859779f7f637&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Catlett's Negro es Bello, Panther imagery and Harlem-era art](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002432a457859779f7f981&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Kehinde Wiley's Obama portrait and African American artistic traditions](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002896a457859779f7fb5b&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Jubilee Singers' formal presentation and cultural significance](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002d99a457859779f7fd80&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American musical traditions and cultural development](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900354fa457859779f800d5&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Catlett's Negro es Bello and Harlem Renaissance artistic traditions](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2869ecc22236bd9d2f0a5&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black figures in classical religious iconography](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286a0cc22236bd9d2f0ac&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Maultsby's sacred, secular and jazz timeline across the African diaspora](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28788cc22236bd9d2f1c7&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Amistad survivors: 1839 visual representations and African resistance](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900142ba457859779f7f298&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Contraband camps and African American resistance, 1862](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002a83a457859779f7fc2d&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Enslaved people's escape and betrayal in border states](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002e96a457859779f7fded&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Contraband camps and African American self-liberation during Civil War](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28655cc22236bd9d2f057&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Enslaved resistance and escape in antebellum America](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287d1cc22236bd9d2f217&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Brazilian sugar production and enslaved labor systems](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001824a457859779f7f455&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Brazilian sugar plantation labor and enslaved workers](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286a0cc22236bd9d2f0a8&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American portraiture and dignity during Reconstruction](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690010a6a457859779f7f10e&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [William Still's Underground Railroad documentation and freedom seekers](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001c56a457859779f7f621&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Harriet Tubman portrait, race and gender identity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286cccc22236bd9d2f0e7&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Photographic documentation of African American professional achievement](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900109ca457859779f7f108&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Amistad trial sketches and antislavery visual documentation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001326a457859779f7f228&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Jacob Lawrence's "Strategy" and Black leadership representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001e22a457859779f7f6e9&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Harriet Tubman's formal portrait photography during Reconstruction](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690024d2a457859779f7f9c4&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Quilted textile art and African American visual representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002777a457859779f7fae8&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Abolitionist visual imagery and enslaved women's humanity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002786a457859779f7faed&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Charles Remond Douglass, African American Union soldier photograph](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002a37a457859779f7fc0a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Jacob Lawrence's visual art on Haitian and African American resistance](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900305aa457859779f7feb0&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Harriet Tubman portrait photograph and African American dignity representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900368da457859779f80162&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Charles Remond Douglass photograph, African American identity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28654cc22236bd9d2f054&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Jacob Lawrence's "Strategy," Black intellectual leadership and planning](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286c4cc22236bd9d2f0d2&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Enslaved women, motherhood, and antislavery advocacy](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab288bbcc22236bd9d2f331&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American soldiers in Civil War military service](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001517a457859779f7f2fe&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Elizabeth Brisco's 1864 search for separated family members](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001731a457859779f7f3ec&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Elizabeth Brisco's 1864 newspaper advertisement seeking family information](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2862ecc22236bd9d2f021&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)

### Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom (55)
- [Freedmen's Bureau circular on marriage legalization and family reconstruction](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900260aa457859779f7fa4c&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Freedmen's Bureau labor contracts and freedpeople's rights](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690034d3a457859779f800a1&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Freedmen's Bureau circular on freedpeople's legal rights](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287aacc22236bd9d2f1e7&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Reconstruction land grants and African American economic opportunity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690011cda457859779f7f191&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling and mid-twentieth-century segregation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001e11a457859779f7f6df&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling and the legal construction of race](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287adcc22236bd9d2f1f0&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling and nadir-era Black journalists](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001087a457859779f7f100&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Elizabeth Eckford's integration attempt at Little Rock School](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690014fda457859779f7f2f5&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Segregated water fountains and Jim Crow racial separation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001ab8a457859779f7f572&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Rosa Parks's arrest and Jim Crow legal system](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001f80a457859779f7f77e&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American detention during Tulsa Race Massacre](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690027b4a457859779f7fb01&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Karales's Selma march photo and nadir-era protest traditions](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690036f5a457859779f8018d&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Jim Crow segregation in public spaces, 1950](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2869dcc22236bd9d2f0a4&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Karales's Selma march photo and civil rights coalition-building](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286ebcc22236bd9d2f103&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Rosa Parks arrest and Jim Crow enforcement](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28789cc22236bd9d2f1c9&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Tulsa Race Massacre photograph and Jim Crow racial violence](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28789cc22236bd9d2f1ca&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Greenwood District destruction during Tulsa Race Massacre](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001523a457859779f7f307&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Greenwood aftermath photograph, Black Wall Street and migration](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690021d9a457859779f7f87e&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Tulsa Race Massacre photograph, 1921](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690032c0a457859779f7ffba&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1921 Tulsa Race Massacre photograph and racial violence](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28857cc22236bd9d2f2b3&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Greenwood burning photograph and Red Summer-era racial violence](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2886bcc22236bd9d2f2cd&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Madam C.J. Walker agents convention and Black economic empowerment](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002905a457859779f7fb88&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Madam C.J. Walker Products ad and Booker T. Washington's approach](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900296da457859779f7fbb4&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Madam C.J. Walker's business enterprise and Villa Lewaro](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001d29a457859779f7f67c&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1906 Madam C.J. Walker Products ad and Black women's uplift ideologies](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690023bda457859779f7f94e&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Garveyite Family photograph, racial pride, African American identity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002bbea457859779f7fcb5&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [James Van Der Zee's portrait of Langston Hughes, 1920s](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900378ea457859779f801ce&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Studio portrait, Black dignity, New Negro aesthetics](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287c1cc22236bd9d2f206&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black identity celebration through visual media, 1968](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690011c3a457859779f7f18a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American visual representation during the Harlem Renaissance](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690012b0a457859779f7f1f0&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Greenwood ruins photograph and Black institutions after Reconstruction](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900131ba457859779f7f220&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Segregated restrooms and Civil Rights era photography](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001a63a457859779f7f54d&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Madam C.J. Walker agents convention photograph, Black prosperity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001be5a457859779f7f5f2&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Greenwood burning photograph and later photographic activism](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690020f5a457859779f7f81d&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Nichelle Nichols, television representation, African American imagery](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690023b2a457859779f7f948&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Clark Doll Test and Jim Crow segregation documentation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900255ea457859779f7fa02&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Tulsa Race Massacre photograph and African American visual representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900275aa457859779f7fadc&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1968 Black Student Union Strike photography and protest](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690027eca457859779f7fb17&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Oscar Micheaux's The Betrayal lobby card and African American cinema](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002849a457859779f7fb3c&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Civil rights protest photography in Cairo, Illinois](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002d01a457859779f7fd40&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Danny Lyon's 1962 photograph of civil rights prayer demonstration](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286c2cc22236bd9d2f0d1&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black women's representation in 1960s television](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28710cc22236bd9d2f133&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Tulsa Race Massacre, armed enforcement, racial violence](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28712cc22236bd9d2f135&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black aesthetic, cultural pride, African heritage](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28789cc22236bd9d2f1c8&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Greenwood burning photograph and New Negro portraits of Black life](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2881dcc22236bd9d2f26d&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Gordon Parks's 1947 Clark Doll Test photograph](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28847cc22236bd9d2f2a6&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Van Der Zee's photograph of Harlem Black life and dignity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2888dcc22236bd9d2f2f4&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Walker agents convention, African American entrepreneurship, dignity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab288adcc22236bd9d2f31b&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Harlem nightlife venues and African American entertainment](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69000f41a457859779f7f073&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American musical genres and historical development](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001f99a457859779f7f787&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [All-Black Hollywood musicals and African American entertainment](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690023dfa457859779f7f95b&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Hunter College Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies, 1972](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900282ba457859779f7fb30&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Studies institutionalization and historical documentation efforts](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690036c3a457859779f80176&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Hunter College's 1972 course schedule and the African Free School](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28822cc22236bd9d2f27a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [The Migration Series: African American urban movement](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002b3da457859779f7fc7c&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)

### Unit 4: Movements and Debates (52)
- [Les Fétiches, African art and cultural identity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69000f95a457859779f7f097&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Loïs Mailou Jones's Les Fétiches and African heritage](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28871cc22236bd9d2f2d7&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American activists, Ghana independence celebration, 1963](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002c35a457859779f7fce8&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1942 Tuskegee Airmen group photo and postwar expectations of equality](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001383a457859779f7f24d&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1945 photo of the 6888th Postal Battalion and women's citizenship](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002d1fa457859779f7fd4d&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Signed Tuskegee flight instructors photo and postwar G.I. Bill administration](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002dc0a457859779f7fd91&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [6888th Postal Battalion inspection photo and race and gender in wartime service](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2862fcc22236bd9d2f02e&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Tuskegee Airmen, segregation, military service](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287facc22236bd9d2f247&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Justice Department photo of Ruby Bridges and federal-local school tensions](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001856a457859779f7f469&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [School desegregation resistance in Little Rock, 1957](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002814a457859779f7fb28&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Clark Doll Test and racial segregation research](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002c9da457859779f7fd14&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Ruby Bridges marshals photo and race, age and gender in desegregation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287accc22236bd9d2f1ed&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [School integration resistance at Little Rock, 1957](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287b4cc22236bd9d2f1f9&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Clark Doll Test and racial psychology research](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab288d2cc22236bd9d2f33f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Home Owners' Loan Corporation residential security map, 1937](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002804a457859779f7fb1f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlining maps and racial segregation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286cbcc22236bd9d2f0e6&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001074a457859779f7f0f7&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Panther Party armed self-defense strategies, 1969](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001682a457859779f7f39f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Maultsby's music timeline, jazz and the Black Freedom movement](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001da6a457859779f7f6b2&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American sacred musical traditions, 1600-2000](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287f4cc22236bd9d2f23d&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Nation of Islam convention and organizational practices, 1966](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001475a457859779f7f2ba&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Panther activism and Asian American solidarity, 1968](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690023d8a457859779f7f958&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Nation of Islam convention, religious identity, institutional autonomy](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab2873ccc22236bd9d2f16a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Bingham's 1968 Richard Aoki photograph and late-1960s cross-racial activism](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28762cc22236bd9d2f19b&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Space Is the Place poster, Afrofuturism, Black Arts movement](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002016a457859779f7f7bc&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African mask imagery in Black Power visual art](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002b33a457859779f7fc79&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Arts movement, cultural identity, visual presentation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69003288a457859779f7ffa1&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Afrofuturist imagery and Black artistic liberation visions](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286a0cc22236bd9d2f0a9&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Elizabeth Catlett's Negro es Bello II and Black identity](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286eecc22236bd9d2f110&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Chicago's Rainbow Coalition, interracial organizing, 1969](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690011e8a457859779f7f19a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Panther Free Food Program community assistance](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001fa1a457859779f7f78b&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Panther activism and interracial coalition-building](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900313da457859779f7ff14&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Panther Party armed self-defense demonstration, 1969](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690031fea457859779f7ff65&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Panther Party armed self-defense and Black Power ideology](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286c6cc22236bd9d2f0dc&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Black Panther Party coalition building, 1969](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28861cc22236bd9d2f2c2&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Catlett's Negro es Bello and later multicultural studies movements](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69003020a457859779f7fe98&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Elizabeth Catlett's *Negro es Bello*, Black identity, beauty standards](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab288d8cc22236bd9d2f342&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [1937 residential security map and urban segregation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002467a457859779f7f995&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American musical genres and traditions, 1600-2000](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002876a457859779f7fb4f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American musical genres and evolution, 1600-2000](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28786cc22236bd9d2f1c0&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Oscar Micheaux's The Betrayal and African American cinema](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001669a457859779f7f392&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Space Is the Place poster and Afrofuturist imagery](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690029d7a457859779f7fbe2&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Soul Train photograph, African American media representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002e4fa457859779f7fdce&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Oscar Micheaux's independent filmmaking and Black cinema representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab287a6cc22236bd9d2f1e3&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American athletes' protest and racial advocacy tradition](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6900309ca457859779f7fecf&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American women scientists at NASA, 1970s](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69000ccaf21b22b3e02bc2ab&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American women in NASA scientific work, 1970s](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001c9ca457859779f7f63f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [George Washington Carver's laboratory at Tuskegee Institute](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=690028c8a457859779f7fb6f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [African American women in aerospace science and technology](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab286a0cc22236bd9d2f0ab&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Nichelle Nichols, Lieutenant Uhura, television representation 1968](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69001a1aa457859779f7f52c&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Mae Jemison's 1992 space mission and representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=69002c92a457859779f7fd0f&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)
- [Mae Jemison, space exploration, Black representation](/ap-african-american-studies/frq-practice?id=6ab28819cc22236bd9d2f26a&type=short-answer-question-1-visual-source)

## Sample question

**Catlett's Negro es Bello, the Black Campus movement and Black Studies**

Answer all parts of the question that follows.

Image: https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/632be2995229ca0bd3715246/66bfdc15bcf7648dce13cf6c_169.jpg
  Alt: Negro es Bello // by Elizabeth Catlett, 1969

Part A (1 point):
  Prompt: Describe the visual message conveyed by Elizabeth Catlett's 1969 artwork Negro es Bello.
  Topic: Creativity, Expressions, and the Arts

Part B (1 point):
  Prompt: Explain how the 1969 date of Catlett's Negro es Bello relates to the context of the Black Campus movement.
  Topic: Creativity, Expressions, and the Arts

Part C (1 point):
  Prompt: Explain how artistic expressions like Catlett's Negro es Bello contributed to the broader development of African American Studies as an academic discipline.
  Topic: Creativity, Expressions, and the Arts

Image URLs (1):
  - https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/632be2995229ca0bd3715246/66bfdc15bcf7648dce13cf6c_169.jpg

## Questions

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## Related

- [Visual-Source SAQ exam guide](/ap-african-american-studies/ap-african-american-studies-exam/ap-african-american-studies-saq/study-guide/ap-african-american-studies-saq)
- [AP African American Studies DBQ practice](/ap-african-american-studies/frqs/dbq)
- [AP African American Studies No-Source SAQ practice](/ap-african-american-studies/frqs/no-source-saq)
- [AP African American Studies Text-Source SAQ practice](/ap-african-american-studies/frqs/text-source-saq)
- [AP African American Studies FRQs](/ap-african-american-studies/frqs)
- Any question by id: the `get_frq` tool on the [Fiveable MCP server](/mcp/docs)

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