Reorder the following events from Delivering Justice in the correct timeline.

• People throw down their Levy's charge cards at church.

• 1. Savannah officially desegregates.

• Westley helps organize voter schools.

• Westley leads the Great Savannah Boycott.

• • Students do sit-in protests at lunch counters.

Match the following

• Refused to leave lunch counters until se

• Picket Line

• Stopped shopping to hurt store profits.

• Sit-in

• Swam at all-white beaches to fight segre

• Wade-in

• Walked with signs to demand change.

• Boycott

Match the following

• Protesters carried signs outside Levy’s.

• Sit-in

• Students sat at Levy's lunch counter.

• Picket Line

• Protesters stopped shopping at Levy's.

• Boycott

• Protesters swam at the white-only beach.

• Wade-in

What was the main goal of the boycott in the story?

• to ask for better jobs

• to demand that stores serve black people equally, leading to desegregation

Answer explanation

The boycott aimed to stop people from shopping at stores on Broughton Street, which would hurt the storeowners' business and push them to desegregate, allowing Black people to be served equally.

Why did the police arrest the students who were doing sit-ins?

• the students were not being served

• the students had broken Savannah's segregation laws

• the students tried not to pay

What did protesters do during a picket line?

• They sat at lunch counters and refused to leave.

• They carried signs outside stores and marched to show their demand for desegregation.

• They gave speeches at a church.

Answer explanation

Protesters at the picket lines carried signs to show their desire for change, standing outside Levy's and other stores to demand equal treatment.

What was the purpose of the sit-ins at the lunch counters?

• to demand to be served at segregated lunch counters and force stores to integrate

• to tell other people that the business was unfair by holding signs and marching

• to demand that the segregation laws be made stronger

Answer explanation

The sit-ins were a peaceful way to show that Black people wanted to be served at lunch counters like white people, pushing stores to integrate and treat everyone equally.

Why did Westley encourage students to protest without violence?

• He wanted to make sure no one was arrested because that would end all the protests.

• He knew that peaceful protests would win support from both Black and white communities.

• He wanted to make the protests last longer so that more people could be arrested.

Match the following sentences from the text with the right inferences.

• "everyone was tossing charge cards"

• The boycott was working.

• "Five GOING OUT OF BUSINESS signs."

• People were protesting against Levy's department store by refusing to shop their anymore.

• "Justice Delivered"

• Segregation was finally ended in Savannah.

Which of the following is not part of the NAACP's sit-in strategy?

• dress neatly

• leave together

• order politely

• use violence

• do not react to insults