Civil Rights Movement/Montgomery Bus Boycott
- You've already studied the Montgomery Bus Boycott in school. Now go to this Mythbuster quiz and find out how much you know. Make notes on your note sheet.
- Do the interactive exercises.
Interactive exercises
The back of the bus
Put in the correct words.
Buses in Montgomery, Alabama were, like all public institutions, segregated. Most customers were black since the more affluent whites already had cars. The buses weren't evenly divided in half— the front for whites and the rear for Blacks. The start of the “colored” section was determined by the number of whites on board. The more whites that boarded, the further back the white section extended. The more crowded the bus became with white patrons, the further the bus driver extended the white section in accommodation, regardless of the injustice to African Americams.
Furthermore black people had to pay the bus driver up front, then leave the bus and get in from the back of the bus.
Rosa Parks
Put in the correct form of the words. Sometimes you may have to add a word.
Rosa Parks was a seamstress by profession; but she also worked (work) as the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped (stop) from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove (drive) off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake.
As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. So she wasn't tired (not, to tire) of working in a factory but fed up with the situtaion when she refused (refuse) to stand up.
Rosa Parks was a seamstress by profession; but she also worked (work) as the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped (stop) from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove (drive) off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake.
As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. So she wasn't tired (not, to tire) of working in a factory but fed up with the situtaion when she refused (refuse) to stand up.
important words
Find the opposites:
| injustice | fairness |
| segregation | integration |
| organisation | chaos |
| further | nearer, closer |
| offensive | insulting/ causing anger and hatred |
| colored | opposite of white |
| equal | the same |
| healthy | sick |
Getting yourself in Trouble
Fill in a form of ‘self’ or ‘each other’.
A lot of black people complained about unfair laws at the time of the civil rights movement.
They talked to each other() that something had to be done.
They planned to defend themselves() against the unfair laws.
So Rosa Parks got herself() into trouble. She refused to give up her seat to a white man.
At court in front of the judge she defended herself() alone without an attorney.
During the Montgomery bus boycott black people helped each other() to get to work. They shared cars. One man
A young pastor from Atlanta,Georgia came to help with the boycott. Martin Luther King himself() broke laws that were unfair.
A lot of black people complained about unfair laws at the time of the civil rights movement.
They talked to each other() that something had to be done.
They planned to defend themselves() against the unfair laws.
So Rosa Parks got herself() into trouble. She refused to give up her seat to a white man.
At court in front of the judge she defended herself() alone without an attorney.
During the Montgomery bus boycott black people helped each other() to get to work. They shared cars. One man
A young pastor from Atlanta, Georgia came to help with the boycott. Martin Luther King himself() broke laws that were unfair.
Weblinks
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
(English) - teaching for change: Rosa Parks Mythbuster quiz
