March 2 Day 7-9

Why doesn't MLK join the freedom rides in Montgomery?

• His wife is sick.

• He doesn't feel like going.

• He is on parole.

• He is scared.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What happens to the freedom riders once they reach Jackson, Mississippi?

• Nothing.

• They are arrested.

• They are attacked.

• They are not allowed off the bus.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which things happen in the conversation between MLK and Robert Kennedy?

• MLK says the freedom riders will stay in jail.

• Robert Kennedy offers to get the riders out of jail.

• Robert Kennedy says that staying in jail will not impact the cause.

• All of these things happen.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Match the following

• Subtle, behind your back, hard to prove

• Racism in Jackson

• Overt, in your face, impossible to miss

• this one matches...

• ...this one

• Racism in Birmingham

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

When the guard at Parchman Farm says, "Ain't no newspaper men out here," what does he mean?

• We don't arrest reporters

• No one will see what happens to you here

• There's no pictures allowed in this prison

• There are no newspapers to read here

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

Having to strip naked, being forced to shave facial hair, and not being given proper clothing to wear are all examples of...

• Dehumanization

• Segregation

• Migration

• Isolation

Match the following people to their focus or feelings in this book.

• I must answer to the government

• John Lewis

• I believe nonviolence is the way

• MLK

• I realize this fight may cause my death

• Stokely Carmichael

• I should be able to react to violence

• Robert Kennedy

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

No state showed us what we were up against more than ​ (a)   . Nearly ​ (b)   of the state's black families lived below the ​ (c)   . And only ​ (d)   of eligible black voters were registered. In many counties, there were none.

• Mississippi
• 90%
• poverty line
• 5%
• Alabama
• 70%
• 10%

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

Put these events in the right order from first to last (1=first, 5=last)

• John and the riders go to prison

• Mattress wars

• The Children's March

• MLK doesn't join the freedom rides

• MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

John Lewis belongs to which student nonviolence group? (Use the abbreviation for your answer)

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10