WorksheetsM2 - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
When Claudette was four years old she learned that she should never touch a white person from an instance where…
She accidently bumped into a white woman and her young son waiting in line at the general store
Some white children in a store put their hands against hers as they giggled and pointed
Her mother was slapped by a woman at a store for questioning the price of an item
She saw her sister get slapped for retaliating against a white boy who was teasing her at the store
If a black person boarded a bus and there were white people sitting in the white section, they had to…
Exit the bus and re-enter from the rear door
Silently walk to the back of the bus without making eye-contact with the white passengers
Wait until a segregated bus arrived without any white passengers
Stand, regardless of whether there were empty seats or not
Claudette and her sisters were mostly raised by…
Their mother and father
Their mother
Their grandmother and grandfather
Their great-aunt and uncle
True or False: Claudette was an excellent student who was able to skip a grade in school.
True
False
Which of the following made Claudette feel especially degraded about shopping in the white department stores downtown?
They weren’t allowed to try on any of the clothes they bought
Certain areas of the store, with the nicest items, were off limits for African Americans
Blacks could only shop at the stores late at night after all the white costumers had left
Clerks often charged African American customers more for the same items as whites
What did Claudette say to the police when they attempted to remove her from the bus?
“It’s my constitutional right!”
"Get your hands off me!"
“We shall overcome! We shall overcome!”
She said nothing except that she started praying to herself
How were Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin’s arrests different?
Rosa refused to give her seat up for a white man instead of a white woman
The police were polite to Rosa compared to how they dragged Claudette off the bus
Rosa and the bus driver had a history of conflict where Claudette didn’t really know the driver
The bus driver was allowed to make the arrest of Rosa, where Claudette’s driver had to wait for the police to arrive
Which were reasons that Rosa Parks was considered to be the “right face” of the boycott instead of Claudette Colvin? (select all that apply)
She was older and considered to be more reliable than a teenager, like Claudette
She was among the most committed Christians in Martin Luther King Jr’s parish on Dexter St
She was known to be a calm, polite, and respectable woman who wouldn’t be likely to pick a fight
She had a reputation for being a charismatic public speaker that could get people to take action based on her rousing speeches
When the school found out that Claudette was pregnant, what did they do?
They sent her to a maternity house out in the country to give birth in secret
They arranged for Miss Nesbitt to adopt the child since she and her husband were unable to conceive a child
They expelled her from the school immediately after she started showing
They took her out of the college prep classes and enrolled her “home-economics” classes
What impact did the bus boycott have on the City Lines bus company? (select all that apply)
They had to let go some of the drivers
They allow for three extra rows of blacks-only seats
The stopped running buses on weekends
They shut down some of the bus routes
Which of the following best summarizes why the boycott didn’t end with the court decision?
Because one of the judges disagreed, they had to wait for it to be heard by a higher court
Because they had to wait for the case to be appealed and decided by the Supreme Court
Because they wanted the bus company to change its rules because they wanted to and not because a court told them to do so
Because the bus company still refused to hire African-American drivers
How long did it take for Federal Marshalls to arrive to enforce the desegregation of buses?
10 minutes
3-4 days
5 weeks
6 months
True or False - On the first day after the boycott ended, Claudette was among those who had the honor of boarding the first desegregated bus with Martin Luther King Jr.
True
False
True or False - After the court decision, violence by whites towards blacks in Montgomery increased dramatically.
True
False
True or False - Martin Luther King Jr. thanked Claudette for her courage and being in the court case.
True
False
