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English Semester 1/ Reading Comprehension Activity 2
DUE: December 5, 2012 by 11:59PM EST
Directions: Read the story and answer the questions. When answering thequestions, be sure to refer back to the story if necessary to find the correct answer.
Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
The year was 1955. The place was Montgomery, Alabama. There were reallytwo Montgomeries then – one for the city’s black citizens and one for the whites. “Colored people,” as African Americans were often called at that time, had their own neighborhoods and schools, theirown sections in restaurants, even their own drinking fountains and vending machines on the streets. “Coloreds” were not permitted to use white facilities.
Laws enforcing such segregation in southernstates were known as Jim Crow laws. In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to allow separate but equal facilities for citizens of different races. In reality, however, “separate” was almostalways unequal. For example, many black students in Montgomery attended a one-room school that went only through grade 6 and operated just five months of the year. White children went from grade schoolthrough high school in modern buildings that operated a full nine months of the year.
The black citizens of Montgomery depended on the city’s bus system to get around. They paid the same fares aswhite passengers, but they were not permitted to board the buses through the front door. They had to step aboard in front, pay their fare, step off again, and board the bus through a door near theback. Then, they sat in the “colored” section of the bus, also near the back.
On December 1, 1955, 42-year-old Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery bus. She had grown up in the segregated South, but shehad also worked for civil rights. She had once served as secretary to the president of the NAACP, a major civil rights organization. In 1955, she was a seamstress at a store called Montgomery...
English Semester 1/ Reading Comprehension Activity 2
DUE: December 5, 2012 by 11:59PM EST
Directions: Read the story and answer the questions. When answering thequestions, be sure to refer back to the story if necessary to find the correct answer.
Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
The year was 1955. The place was Montgomery, Alabama. There were reallytwo Montgomeries then – one for the city’s black citizens and one for the whites. “Colored people,” as African Americans were often called at that time, had their own neighborhoods and schools, theirown sections in restaurants, even their own drinking fountains and vending machines on the streets. “Coloreds” were not permitted to use white facilities.
Laws enforcing such segregation in southernstates were known as Jim Crow laws. In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to allow separate but equal facilities for citizens of different races. In reality, however, “separate” was almostalways unequal. For example, many black students in Montgomery attended a one-room school that went only through grade 6 and operated just five months of the year. White children went from grade schoolthrough high school in modern buildings that operated a full nine months of the year.
The black citizens of Montgomery depended on the city’s bus system to get around. They paid the same fares aswhite passengers, but they were not permitted to board the buses through the front door. They had to step aboard in front, pay their fare, step off again, and board the bus through a door near theback. Then, they sat in the “colored” section of the bus, also near the back.
On December 1, 1955, 42-year-old Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery bus. She had grown up in the segregated South, but shehad also worked for civil rights. She had once served as secretary to the president of the NAACP, a major civil rights organization. In 1955, she was a seamstress at a store called Montgomery...
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