Civil Rights Movement/Montgomery Bus Boycott

Task

1. 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.
2. 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, . Most customers were black since the more affluent already had cars. The buses weren't evenly divided in half— the front for whites and the rear for . The start of the “colored” section was determined by the number of whites on board. The more whites that boarded, the further the white section extended. The more the bus became with white patrons, the further the bus driver extended the white section in accommodation, regardless of the to African Americams.

Furthermore black people had to pay the bus driver up , then leave the bus and get in from the back of the bus.

injusticebackBlackswhitesfrontcrowdedsegregated

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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 (work) as the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks (stop) from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then (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 (not, to tire) of working in a factory but fed up with the situtaion when she (refuse) to stand up.

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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:

segregationsickfairnessinsulting/
causing anger and hatredhealthyinjusticenearer,
closeroffensiveorganisationchaosopposite of whitecoloredthe sameintegrationfurtherequal

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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 that something had to be done.

They planned to defend against the unfair laws.

So Rosa Parks got into trouble. She refused to give up her seat to a white man.

At court in front of the judge she defended alone without an attorney.

During the Montgomery bus boycott black people helped to get to work. They shared cars. One man

A young pastor from Atlanta,Georgia came to help with the boycott. Martin Luther King broke laws that were unfair.

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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.

Civil Rights Movement

1. Slavery and civil war
2. Segregation
3. Montgomery Bus Boycott
4. Martin Luther King
5. Malcolm X & Black Power
6. Black Lives Matter

Weblinks

• Montgomery Bus Boycott^(English)
• teaching for change: Rosa Parks Mythbuster quiz