Freedom Walkers - Chapters 1-7 Review

"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

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

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

In response to police officer asking, "Aren't you going to get up?" "No...I don't have to get up. I paid my fare, so I don't have to get up...It's my constitutional right to sit here just as much as that [white] lady."

• Rosa Parks

• Edwina Johnson

• Mary Louise Smith

• Claudette Colvin

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Claudette Colvin, Jo Ann Robinson, Rosa Parks, and E.D. Nixon were all a part of the NAACP, which stands for...

• National Association for the Appreciation of Coffee People

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• National Association for the Advancement of Coexistence

• National Association for the Appreciation of California People

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy, visiting from Chicago was beaten to death by Klansmen (KKK) for...

• registering African American voters

• allegedly whistling at a white woman

• stealing from a grocery store

• sitting in the white's only section of a bus in Montgomery

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What was the first day of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• December 1, 1955

• December 3, 1955

• December 5, 1955

• December 7, 1955

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Claudette Colvin, Jo Ann Robinson, Rosa Parks, and E.D. Nixon were all a part of the NAACP, which stands for...

• National Association for the Appreciation of Coffee People

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• National Association for the Advancement of Coexistence

• National Association for the Appreciation of California People

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

King was 26 years old and a newcomer to Montgomery. He had moved there to be a minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Martin Luther King was actually from...

• Trenton, New Jersey

• Cincinnati, Ohio

• Los Angeles, CA

• Atlanta, Georgia

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

King was unanimously (with full agreement) chosen to be the head of the M.I.A by the black leaders of Montgomery, which was an acronym for...

• Montgomery Is Awesome

• Montgomery Insider Association

• Ministers in Action

• Montgomery Improvement Association

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2