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Freedom Walkers Content & Vocabulary - Segments 1 & 2

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word best completes the following sentence?

Back then, racial ____________ was the rule throughout the American South.

a)

submission

b)

galvanized

c)

grievances

d)

segregation

2.

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.

a)

segregate

b)

boycott

c)

grievances

d)

submission

3.

Which word best completes the following sentence?

To be effective, a ____________ would need the united support of the city's African American bus riders.

a)

galvanized

b)

boycott

c)

submission

d)

grievances

4.

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 ____________.

a)

submission

b)

boycott

c)

grievances

d)

segregate

5.

Which word best completes the following sentence?

Claudette Colvin's arrest ____________ the black community.

a)

boycott

b)

submission

c)

segregate

d)

galvanized

6.

What is the definition of violating?

a)

of great importance or significance

b)

cruel or unjust treatment

c)

breaking a law or failing to follow one

d)

recommending or speaking in favor of

7.

What is the definition of momentous?

a)

of great importance of significance

b)

distinguished or high-ranking

c)

recommending or speaking in favor of

d)

breaking a law for failing to follow one

8.

What is the definition of eminent?

a)

of great importance or significance

b)

cruel or unjust treatment

c)

distinguished or high-ranking

d)

breaking a law or failing to follow one

9.

What is the definition of oppression?

a)

cruel or unjust treatment or control

b)

distinguished or high-ranking

c)

breaking a law or failing to follow one

d)

recommending or speaking in favor of

10.

What is the definition of advocating?

a)

breaking a law or failing to follow one

b)

recommending or speaking in favor of

c)

of great importance or significance

d)

distinguished or high-ranking

11.

Who is Russell Freedman?

a)

Rosa Parks' first husband

b)

a railroad sleeping car porter

c)

the author of Freedom Walkers

d)

a white bus driver in Montgomery, AL

12.

True or False? Jo Ann Robinson was a seamstress at Montgomery Fair, a department store in her city.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

True or False? The first lunch counter sit-in was held in Greensboro, North Carolina.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Which came first?

a)

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.

b)

Claudette Colvin was handcuffed for her refusal to leave her bus seat.

15.

True or False? Black citizens couldn't shop or have lunch at Kress and Woolworth's department stores.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

True or False? Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, is southeast of Birmingham, the state's largest city.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929. If he was alive today, how old would he be?

a)

70

b)

90

c)

80

d)

99

18.

At the time of Jo Ann Robinson's experience on a Montgomery AL bus in 1949, what percent of riders were black?

a)

almost 40%

b)

nearly 77%

c)

almost 50%

d)

close to 90%

19.

True or False? All Montgomery bus drivers were mean and hateful.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Who was Virginia Durr?

a)

a co-worker of Rosa Parks

b)

the wife of Montgomery's mayor

c)

a white woman and equal rights advocate who became friends with Rosa Parks

d)

an professor at Alabama State College