Freedom Walkers Chapters 5-7

Police Commissioner Sellers ordered his men to crack down on the carpool drivers. People who had never in their lives received a traffic ticket were booked and at times taken to jail.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Read the sentence below from chapter six.

The city commissioners were convinced that most blacks wanted to ride the buses but were being tricked and manipulated by the boycott leaders . . .

What does the word manipulated mean as it is used in the passage?

• neglected

• abandoned

• misled

• influenced

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Judge Carter granted an injunction to ban the car pool just after...

• Mayor Gayle and King agreed to a plan to integrate Montgomery's buses
• a special grand jury found Police Commissioner Sellers guilty of corruption
• the Supreme Court declared Alabama's bus segregation laws unconstitutional.
• the MIA received a city permit to operate its own taxicab service

Who said this saying? "My feets are tired, but my soul is rested?"

• Claudette Colvin
• Mother Pollard
• Rosa Parks
• Jo Ann Robinson

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does the word segregate mean?

• to keep together
• to keep separated 

What was King doing when he was arrested and jailed for the first time?

• breaking up a fight that had broken out between two boycotters
• trying to file a complaint against policemen who had harassed boycotters
• transporting three boycotters he had picked up at carpool station
• speaking at a rally outside the county courhouse

How did the White Citizens Council try to cripple the MIA car pool?

• by introducing loitering laws against people waiting for car pools
• by getting a court injunction saying the drivers needed a special license
• by bribing officials to make the car pool fleet fail required inspections
• by preventing their fleet of station wagons from getting insurance.

Dr. King said, "We are not here advocating violence" during his...

• first sermon as minister of the First Baptist Church
• first speech as the president of the MIA protest group
• campaign to become chairman of the local NAACP chapter
• testimony to a special grand jury investigation racial unrest

What happened on December 5, 1955, the day of the one-day bus boycott?

• Rosa Parks was found guilty of violating segregation laws.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. arrived in Montgomery.
• Jo Ann Robinson was fired for her role in printing the boycott leaflets.
• Emmett Till was murdered as he tried to leave a bus.

What genre would Freedom Walkers be considered?

• Historical Fiction
• Biography
• Nonfiction
• Auto-biography