Checkpoint 32: TN Contributes to the Civil Rights (5.50)

Who was trained at the Highlander Folk School before refusing to give up a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

• Malcolm X

• Emmett Till

• Ruby Bridges

• Rosa Parks

What was unique about the Highlander Folk School during the Civil Rights era?

• White and Black students learned to work against segregation together.

• White and Black students learned to work in support of the First Amendment separately.

• White and Black students learned to work in support of the First Amendment together.

• White and Black students learned to work against segregation separately.

Why are the Clinton Twelve famous?

• They were students who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• They were students who integrated the first public school in Tennessee.

• They were students who lived in Tent City in Fayette County.

• They were students who refused to attend school until it was integrated.

What action did the Clinton Twelve take to try to stay safe?

• They lived next to each other in Tent City.

• They attended training workshops at the Highlander Folk School.

• They walked to school together every day.

• They only went places where there were other African Americans.

What was the original goal of the Highlander Folk School when it opened in the 1930s?

• to train factory workers

• to end racial segregation

• to organize the war effort

• to improve the lives of poor Southerners

Why were some African Americans evicted from their homes in Fayette County during the 1950s?

• African Americans in the area voted in an election and local White people did not like it.

• African Americans who were evicted did not pay their mortgages or rent.

• African Americans who were evicted refused to buy food in local stores.

• African Americans in the area organized a tent city and local White people did not like it.

Why did Tent City develop?

• A. African Americans in Fayette County wanted to protest Jim Crow laws.

• B. African Americans in Fayette County did not have enough money to find housing after being evicted from their homes.

• C. African Americans in Fayette County wanted to end school segregation.

• D. African Americans in Fayette County wanted to protest working conditions.

What was the outcome of the Nashville sit-ins?

• Nashville businesses protested the sit-ins by closing their doors.

• Nashville businesses started serving African Americans at their lunch counters.

• Nashville schools forced students to end sit-ins and return to class.

• Nashville schools desegregated as a result of the sit-ins.

to organize or prepare something, such as a group of people, for a purpose

• mobilize

• protest

• interfere

• integrate

Choose the correct definition of sharecropper.

• a farmer who only grows crops and does not raise animals

• a farmer who lives on his or her own land  but rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land for someone else

• a farmer who sells a share of his or her crops and keeps the rest to feed his or her family

• a farmer who lives on land owned by someone else, rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land, and pays the landowner back with a large share of the harvest