M2 - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

When Claudette was four years old she learned that she should never touch a white person from an instance where…

• She accidently bumped into a white woman and her young son waiting in line at the general store

• Some white children in a store put their hands against hers as they giggled and pointed

• Her mother was slapped by a woman at a store for questioning the price of an item

• She saw her sister get slapped for retaliating against a white boy who was teasing her at the store

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1

If a black person boarded a bus and there were white people sitting in the white section, they had to…

• Exit the bus and re-enter from the rear door

• Silently walk to the back of the bus without making eye-contact with the white passengers

• Wait until a segregated bus arrived without any white passengers

• Stand, regardless of whether there were empty seats or not

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

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CCSS.RL.7.2

Claudette and her sisters were mostly raised by…

• Their mother and father

• Their mother

• Their grandmother and grandfather

• Their great-aunt and uncle

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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True or False: Claudette was an excellent student who was able to skip a grade in school.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.5.3

Which of the following made Claudette feel especially degraded about shopping in the white department stores downtown?

• They weren’t allowed to try on any of the clothes they bought

• Certain areas of the store, with the nicest items, were off limits for African Americans

• Blacks could only shop at the stores late at night after all the white costumers had left

• Clerks often charged African American customers more for the same items as whites

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What did Claudette say to the police when they attempted to remove her from the bus?

• “It’s my constitutional right!”

• "Get your hands off me!"

• “We shall overcome! We shall overcome!”

• She said nothing except that she started praying to herself

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CCSS.RL.8.9

How were Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin’s arrests different?

• Rosa refused to give her seat up for a white man instead of a white woman

• The police were polite to Rosa compared to how they dragged Claudette off the bus

• Rosa and the bus driver had a history of conflict where Claudette didn’t really know the driver

• The bus driver was allowed to make the arrest of Rosa, where Claudette’s driver had to wait for the police to arrive

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

Which were reasons that Rosa Parks was considered to be the “right face” of the boycott instead of Claudette Colvin? (select all that apply)

• She was older and considered to be more reliable than a teenager, like Claudette

• She was among the most committed Christians in Martin Luther King Jr’s parish on Dexter St

• She was known to be a calm, polite, and respectable woman who wouldn’t be likely to pick a fight

• She had a reputation for being a charismatic public speaker that could get people to take action based on her rousing speeches

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When the school found out that Claudette was pregnant, what did they do?

• They sent her to a maternity house out in the country to give birth in secret

• They arranged for Miss Nesbitt to adopt the child since she and her husband were unable to conceive a child

• They expelled her from the school immediately after she started showing

• They took her out of the college prep classes and enrolled her “home-economics” classes

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What impact did the bus boycott have on the City Lines bus company? (select all that apply)

• They had to let go some of the drivers

• They allow for three extra rows of blacks-only seats

• The stopped running buses on weekends

• They shut down some of the bus routes

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