Delivering Justice

Read page 198: Why did Wesley feel lucky?

• He loved eating breakfast

• He was able to see his mom once a week.

• He liked listening to Old John's Stories

• He loved his mama's cooking

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Read Page 199: Choose the TWO ways that the saleswoman was DISRESPECTFUL.

• She would not serve Wesley and his grandmother until after she helped all the white customers.

• She offered Wesley a lollipop.

• She treated Wesley's grandmother like a child.

• She screamed at Wesley's grandmother.

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Read page 201: Segregation is when black people are separated from white people.

Choose the 3 ways that Wesley experienced segregation.

• Wesley had to wear blue shoes

• Wesley went to a different school

• Wesley drank from a separate water fountain

• Wesley could not sit a the lunch counter

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Read page 202: What was Wesley's Grandmothers wish for him.

• She wanted him to help with cooking

• She wanted him to clean his room

• She wanted him to work hard in school

• She wanted him to be a leader for their people

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Read page 203: How did Wesley help people register to vote?

• He yelled at them until the registered

• He took them to voter school, and went with them to register at the courthouse.

• He forced them to sign up

• He tricked them into registering

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Read page 204: Why did Wesley become a Mailman?

• No one would hire him as a teacher

• It was his dream to be a mailman

• His Grandmother thought it would be a good idea

• He thought it would be fun

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Read page 205: Wesley helped young people plan a protest at the department stores what did he teach them?

• You can't change peoples minds

• You must protest without using violence.

• Don't stand up for yourselves

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Read page 206: When the young students sat at the lunch counters what happened?

• The managers called the police and they were arrested.

• They ate a delicious lunch.

• They laughed and had fun.

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Read page 207: Why did people throw their Levy's charge cards into a big pile?

• They thought it would be funny

• They didn't want to pay their bill

• They were mad at how the young people were treated at the lunch counter.

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Read page 209: What was the Great Savannah Boycott?

• When all black people refused to show at any store on the street.

• When young boys ran up and down the street.

• When people decided to shop at all the stores on the street.

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