Rosa Park Text Questions

How were African Americans affected by the bus boycott?

• African Americans had to sit in the back seats.

• African Americans had to walk or find another way to work or stores.

• African Americans had to give up their seats if there were not enough for the white people.

• African Americans were treated like second class citizens.

Choose two answers:

1. Define extend as it is used in the text.

• Extend means to make longer.

• Extend means to stretch or lie.

• Extend means to reach out.

• Extend means to offer.

Explain why Rosa Parks got home late on December 1, 1955.

• She had to go to court.

• The police arrested her for not following the law.

• She had to get off the bus so she got home late.

• She was detained at the police station for 3 hours.

1. Explain why a person cannot appeal a Supreme Court decision.

1. Define custody as it is used in the text.

Explain how African Americans were affected by segregation in the South.

• African Americans could not use bathrooms or water fountains used by white people.

• African Americans had to sit in the back of the bus.

• African Americans could not eat in all restaurants.

• African Americans were treated like second-class citizens.

Define campaign as it is used in the text and explain what the campaign was in the text.

• Campaign is a series of actions intended to accomplish a goal.

• African Americans wanted to sit in the front of the bus.

• Rosa Parks did not want to have to pay to ride the bus.

• African Americans wanted segregation to end.

Explain how the local (city) laws of the South degraded African American people.

Why did some whites believe that the African American protesters in Montgomery were behaving arrogantly?

What was the verdict in Rosa Parks’s first court case?

• She was found innocent and let go.

• She was found guilty.

• She was found to not understand the law.

• She was found to not be able to ride the bus anymore.