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WorksheetsFreedom Walkers Content & Vocabulary - Segments 1 & 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which word best completes the following sentence?
Back then, racial ____________ was the rule throughout the American South.
submission
galvanized
grievances
segregation
Which word best completes the following sentence?
As a result, African Americans in the South could not express their ____________ in the voting booth, which, for the most part, was closed to them.
segregate
boycott
grievances
submission
Which word best completes the following sentence?
To be effective, a ____________ would need the united support of the city's African American bus riders.
galvanized
boycott
submission
grievances
Which word best completes the following sentence?
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacy groups did everything they could to intimidate blacks into ____________.
submission
boycott
grievances
segregate
Which word best completes the following sentence?
Claudette Colvin's arrest ____________ the black community.
boycott
submission
segregate
galvanized
What is the definition of violating?
of great importance or significance
cruel or unjust treatment
breaking a law or failing to follow one
recommending or speaking in favor of
What is the definition of momentous?
of great importance of significance
distinguished or high-ranking
recommending or speaking in favor of
breaking a law for failing to follow one
What is the definition of eminent?
of great importance or significance
cruel or unjust treatment
distinguished or high-ranking
breaking a law or failing to follow one
What is the definition of oppression?
cruel or unjust treatment or control
distinguished or high-ranking
breaking a law or failing to follow one
recommending or speaking in favor of
What is the definition of advocating?
breaking a law or failing to follow one
recommending or speaking in favor of
of great importance or significance
distinguished or high-ranking
Who is Russell Freedman?
Rosa Parks' first husband
a railroad sleeping car porter
the author of Freedom Walkers
a white bus driver in Montgomery, AL
True or False? Jo Ann Robinson was a seamstress at Montgomery Fair, a department store in her city.
True
False
True or False? The first lunch counter sit-in was held in Greensboro, North Carolina.
True
False
Which came first?
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.
Claudette Colvin was handcuffed for her refusal to leave her bus seat.
True or False? Black citizens couldn't shop or have lunch at Kress and Woolworth's department stores.
True
False
True or False? Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, is southeast of Birmingham, the state's largest city.
True
False
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929. If he was alive today, how old would he be?
70
90
80
99
At the time of Jo Ann Robinson's experience on a Montgomery AL bus in 1949, what percent of riders were black?
almost 40%
nearly 77%
almost 50%
close to 90%
True or False? All Montgomery bus drivers were mean and hateful.
True
False
Who was Virginia Durr?
a co-worker of Rosa Parks
the wife of Montgomery's mayor
a white woman and equal rights advocate who became friends with Rosa Parks
an professor at Alabama State College
