Freedom Walkers - through ch 5

What years was the Montgomery bus boycott?

• 1956 & 1957

• 1955 & 1956

• 1945 & 1946

• 1935 & 1936

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

In what state is Montgomery?

• Louisiana

• Alabama

• Mississippi

• Texas

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"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

Segregation means:

• failure to maintain a higher state

• the act of making less active or intense

• the act of keeping apart/separate

• the act of telling a lie

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

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.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

Why was Emmett Till killed?

• slapping a police officer

• stealing a car

• allegedly whistling at a white woman

• not paying a parking ticket

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Integration means:

• confiscate/take away

• detect or find something

• consolidate or combine something together

• deduct or subtract

Which of the following are true about Jo Ann Robinson?

• had graduated from an all-black high school as the class valedictorian.

• was the first member of her family to complete college.

• she had grown up on a small Georgia farm.

• was the youngest of 12 children.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

What mistake did Jo Ann Robinson make below according to her own account?

"She saw that the bus was nearly empty. Only two other passengers were aboard—a black man in a seat near the back and a white woman in the third seat from the front. Without thinking, Robinson took a seat two rows behind the white woman."

• She entered before every white person had boarded.

• She didn't address the white bus driver as "sir" when she paid her fare.

• She sat in one of the front ten seats that were reserved for white riders.

• She spoke to a white woman she knew from work who was also riding the bus.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

What is most closely a central idea from Chapter 2 of Freedom Walkers?

• A. Black leaders in Montgomery had no idea how they would challenge the bus laws.

• B. The movement to challenge segregation gained momentum as more African Americans educated themselves.

• C. Claudette Colvin was a firm believer in segregation.

• D. Whites were careful not to target blacks who they thought could provide a challenge to segregation down the line.

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