Sitting Down to Take a Stand Review

On Thursday, you read about a true story of 4 young boys who took a stand. In which city did this take place?

• Greensboro, North Carolina
• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Montgomery, Alabama
• Jackson, Mississippi 

In what year did these sit-ins take place?

• 1960
• 1950
• 1970
• 1980

Why did the college boys hold on to their receipts at Woolworth's?

• to prove that one section of the store had already served them 
• to prove that they did not steal anything
• to later post them in the local newspaper
• to show which items should be boycotted

"Sit-ins" were a new approach to fighting segregation. What had been the problem with the N.A.A.C.P. trying to fight through the courts?

• it could take years to reach a ruling
• the judges were biased
• it was not a peaceful method
• they did not have enough attorneys 

There was growing impatience within the black community over the absence of any significant progress on desegregation after which famous court ruling? 

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Dred Scott v. Stanford 
• Miranda v. Arizona

What was the Woolworth Company policy towards “serving blacks at its lunch counter?”

• abide by local custom
• allow blacks to sit with whites
• do not allow blacks to sit beside whites
• there was no policy

True or False: Before heading to Woolworth's, the students rehearsed how they would act and what they would say. When they sat down at the lunch counter, they fully expected to be arrested.

• True
• False

What did the manager suggest the customers should do when the four black men refused to leave?

• He called the police
• He said to ignore them
• He encouraged violence
• He served them after about an hour

True or False: As the sit-ins continued, the majority of Greensboro residents supported their cause. 

• True 
• False

What caused the manager to have to close down Woolworth's?

• there was a bomb threat
• members of the Ku Klux Klan showed up
• the students were being harassed with racial epithets
• someone was killed