Freedom Walkers: Ch. 5 Boycott Heroes

Police Commissioner Clyde Sellers threatened to arrest any taxi driver who charged less than the minimum _________ fare.

• 10 cent

• 45 cent

• 55 cent

• 1 dollar

The taxis only charging ten-cent-a-ride fare to African Americans during the Montgomery Bus Boycott were called the "taxicab army."

• True

• False

Dr. Martin Luther King reached out to T.J. Jemison to solve the loss of the taxis since he had organized a boycott in Baton Rouge. T.J. Jemison gave Dr. King ideas on how to create a....

• carpool

• new bus system

• new taxicab army

Since volunteering ones' car showed commitment to the boycott's success, these individuals offered up their cars...

• Jo Ann Robinson

• Rosa Parks

• Claudette Colvin

• black ministers (pastors)

Ultimately, the African American carpool in the Montgomery Bus Boycott had a total of how many cars loaned to them for the carpool?

• 100

• 200

• 300

• 400

One story of praise told at boycott meetings held every Monday and Thursday evening at black churches was an elderly woman saying "she would crawl on her knees before boarding a bus."

• True

• False

One of the most famous quotes from the evening boycott meetings held in Montgomery was of a woman saying, "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested." Who said this?

• Rosa Parks

• Mary Louise Smith

• Mother Pollard

• Coretta Scott King

Since car pool passengers could not pay directly for their rides, they made donations to the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).

• True

• False

Ultimately, the MIA created what it called was their "rolling churches" made up of station wagons and other vehicles.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.6.1

According to Jack Crenshaw who represented the Montgomery Bus Line, they were willing to guarantee courtesy, but unwilling to guarantee _____________ as it was against segregation laws?

• desegregation

• ability for blacks to sit in the front

• the bus company hiring black drivers

• allowing for blacks and whites to sit in the same row