Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice chapters 6-10.

The Montgomery Improvement Association designed a transport system as an alternative to the buses that was entirely voluntary.

• True

• False

Instead of politely asking for modest reforms Fred Gray sought to...

• Ask that bus drivers treat black riders more courteously.

• Ask that separate buses be designated for black riders.

• sue the city of Montgomery, arguing that segregated buses were unconstitutional.

• sue any police officer that removed a black rider from the buses.

Any lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law was supposed to be heard by..

• a panel of 10 judges in city courts.

• a panel of 3 judges in federal court.

• a panel of police officers.

• a board appointed by the Montgomery Improvement Association.

the person who brings the case against another in the court of law is called a..

• plaintiff

• defendant

• spectator

• witness

In the case of Browder vs. Gayle, the city of Montgomery was the...

• plaintiff

• defendant

• spectator

• witness

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for..

• 29 days.

• 54 days.

• 3 years.

• 381 days.

In the case of Browder vs. Gayle the defense tried to...

• prove that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind the idea desegregated buses and black people in Montgomery never really wanted that.

• prove that Claudette Colvin was untrustworthy.

• prove that segregated buses were unconstitutional.

• prove that the judges for the case were biased against whites.

In chapter 8 the "second front" refers to...

• the federal lawsuit Fred Gray brings to argue that segregated seating on buses is unconstitutional

• the second battle of the civil rights movement.

• the second time bus laws had been challenged in court.

• Fred Gray's personal vendetta against Governor George Wallace.

What is the first front in chapter 8?

• The first front is Claudette Colvin getting arrested.

• The first front is protests outside city hall.

• The first front is Mary Louise Smith's testimony

• The first front is the bus boycott because it’s the first battle in the fight against segregation.

How does Hoose define the black protesters’ strategy?

• Hoose writes that the black protesters were “determined to apply economic pressure peacefully”

• Hoose writes that black protesters would get their demands met by any means necessary.