Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Police Commissioner Clyde Sellers threatened to arrest any taxi driver who charged less than the minimum _________ fare.

• 10 cent

• 45 cent

• 55 cent

• 1 dollar

The taxis only charging ten-cent-a-ride fare to African Americans during the Montgomery Bus Boycott were called the "taxicab army."

• True

• False

Since volunteering ones' car showed commitment to the boycott's success, these individuals offered up their cars...

• Jo Ann Robinson

• Rosa Parks

• Claudette Colvin

• black ministers (pastors)

Ultimately, the African American carpool in the Montgomery Bus Boycott had a total of how many cars loaned to them for the carpool?

• 100

• 200

• 300

• 400

One of the most famous quotes from the evening boycott meetings held in Montgomery was of a woman saying, "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested." Who said this?

• Rosa Parks

• Mary Louise Smith

• Mother Pollard

• Coretta Scott King

Ultimately, the MIA created what it called was their "rolling churches" made up of station wagons and other vehicles.

• True

• False

According to Jack Crenshaw who represented the Montgomery Bus Line, they were willing to guarantee courtesy, but unwilling to guarantee _____________ as it was against segregation laws?

• desegregation

• ability for blacks to sit in the front

• the bus company hiring black drivers

• allowing for blacks and whites to sit in the same row

"I left the meeting despondent," King wrote later. "Feeling that our demands were moderate, I had assumed that they would be granted with little question." This experience taught Dr. King a lesson...that the purpose of segregation was...

• to separate whites from blacks and keep it that way.

• to oppress and exploit the blacks

• to make blacks seek justice only through the segregation laws.

________________________ said, "It is hard to imagine a soul so dead, a heart so hard, a vision so blinded...not to be moved with admiration as the quiet dignity, discipline, and dedication with which the Negroes have conducted their boycott."

• Reverend Robert Graetz, white pastor at Trinity Lutheran

• Rosa Parks

• Juliette Morgan, a white librarian

• E.D. Nixon, NAACP

By ______________________, the bus company announced it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Only ________ month(s) into the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• December, 1 month

• January, 2 months

• February, 3 months

• March, 4 months