Freedom Walkers - Jo Ann Robinson

"Strict laws - called "_____________" - enforced a system of white supremacy that discriminated against blacks and kept them in their place as second-class citizens."

• African American laws

• Slavery laws

• Jim Crow laws

• Black laws

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"Not so long ago in Montgomery, Alabama, the color of your skin determined where you could sit on a public bus... Back then, ____________________ was the rule throughout the American South."

• racism

• hate

• discrimination

• racial segregation

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

Blacks and whites in Montgomery, Alabama were segregated (divided). This meant blacks couldn't eat at the same restaurant or attend many places that whites were allowed. This included...

• sitting together in the same movie theaters.

• drinking from the same water fountains

• not attending the same schools

• being buried in segregated cemeteries

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What mistake did Jo Ann Robinson make below according to her own account?

"She saw that the bus was nearly empty. Only two other passengers were aboard—a black man in a seat near the back and a white woman in the third seat from the front. Without thinking, Robinson took a seat two rows behind the white woman."

• She entered before every white person had boarded.

• She didn't address the white bus driver as "sir" when she paid her fare.

• She sat in one of the front ten seats that were reserved for white riders.

• She spoke to a white woman she knew from work who was also riding the bus.

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

Robinson was still mad when she returned to Montgomery after the Christmas holidays and had joined the...

• WCP (Women's Political Council)

• AA CV (African American Civil Disobedience)

• AAAW (African American Association of Women)

• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

On Montgomery’s public buses the first ten seats of every bus were reserved for white riders, with the last twenty-six available to blacks.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which of the following are true about Jo Ann Robinson?

• had graduated from an all-black high school as the class valedictorian.

• was the first member of her family to complete college.

• she had grown up on a small Georgia farm.

• was the youngest of 12 children.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

In 1950, Jo Ann Robinson was elected president of the Women's Political Council (WPC). Under her leadership, Robinson and the women of the WPC met several times with Montgomery city commissioners and and demanded...

• desegregation of the Montgomery City Lines buses

• integration of the Montgomery City Lines buses

• front row seats for blacks

• better seating arrangements.

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CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

In a momentous decision that would affect race relations across America, the United States Supreme Court had declared that segregation in the nation’s public schools was unconstitutional on May 17, 1954. This court case is known as ___________ today.

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Brown vs. Board of Education

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

African Americans in Montgomery, following Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, started thinking - for the first time -the possibility of a boycott. "Boycott" here means...

• a refusal to buy or use goods and services to show disapproval or bring about change

• A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws as a peaceful form of political protest.

• To inspire people to act for a cause or a purpose

• To gather for a purpose; to assemble and put into motion

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4