Freedom Walkers - Ch. 5-6 Review

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

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

Tags

CCSS.1.NBT.A.1

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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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CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

"I left the meeting despondent," King wrote later. "Feeling that our demands were moderate, I had assumed that they would be granted with little question." This experience taught Dr. King a lesson...that the purpose of segregation was...

• to separate whites from blacks and keep it that way.

• to oppress and exploit the blacks

• to make blacks seek justice only through the segregation laws.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

________________________ said, "It is hard to imagine a soul so dead, a heart so hard, a vision so blinded...not to be moved with admiration as the quiet dignity, discipline, and dedication with which the Negroes have conducted their boycott."

• Reverend Robert Graetz, white pastor at Trinity Lutheran

• Rosa Parks

• Juliette Morgan, a white librarian

• E.D. Nixon, NAACP

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

By ______________________, the bus company announced it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Only ________ month(s) into the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• December, 1 month

• January, 2 months

• February, 3 months

• March, 4 months

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5