Freedom Walkers: Ch. 5 Boycott Heroes

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

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

• True

• False

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Dr. Martin Luther King reached out to T.J. Jemison to solve the loss of the taxis since he had organized a boycott in Baton Rouge. T.J. Jemison gave Dr. King ideas on how to create a....

• carpool

• new bus system

• new taxicab army

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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)

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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

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One story of praise told at boycott meetings held every Monday and Thursday evening at black churches was an elderly woman saying "she would crawl on her knees before boarding a bus."

• True

• False

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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

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Since car pool passengers could not pay directly for their rides, they made donations to the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

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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

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