Jim Crow and Racial Segregation

What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws?

• To separate the races and keep blacks poor

• To promote equality and integration

• To provide equal opportunities for all races

• To encourage racial harmony and unity

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In which city did nearly three in five black women work as maids for white families?

• Montgomery

• Birmingham

• Mobile

• Huntsville

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What were the only professional jobs open to blacks?

• Pastoring a black church and schoolteaching

• Working in factories and industries

• Becoming lawyers and doctors

• Serving in the military

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What were black and white citizens forbidden to do together?

• Play sports on the same team

• Drink water from the same fountain

• Marry one another

• All of the above

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What did Jim Crow laws prevent blacks and whites from doing together?

• Learning together

• Eating meals together

• Riding buses or trains together

• All of the above

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What did black and white citizens use separately?

• Water fountains

• Bathrooms

• Both a and b

• None of the above

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What did Claudette Colvin learn from her experience at the general store?

• To never touch another white person again

• To stand up for her rights

• To ignore the actions of white children

• To be friends with white people

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What controlled the lives of black people in central Alabama during the 1940s and 1950s?

• Jim Crow

• Civil Rights Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Independence

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What did Claudette Colvin's parents do?

• They were garbage collectors

• They took care of white people's families

• They took care of black babies while their parents were working

• They worked at the circus

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Why was riding the bus humiliating for black people?

• It wasn't

• They had to pay in the back, get off the bus and go to the front

• They had to run to catch the bus because the bus driver left them

• They had to pay in the front, get off the bus and go to the back

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