We Shall Overcome - Aint Gonna Ride

We Shall Overcome - “Aint Gonna Ride”

Read pages 34-38 and answer the following questions:

1. List two examples that support the book’s statement “Montgomery, Alabama was still a Jim Crow town.”

2. What happened in the middle section of a Montgomery bus if a white rider couldn’t find a seat?

3. How did Jackie Robinson challenge segregated buses?

4. What happened to teenager Claudette Colvin when she challenged the bus law?

5. Why did the NAACP back off challenging the bus law in the case of Claudette Colvin?

6. What did Rosa Parks say to her arresting officer?

7. Who did E.D. Nixon ask to help organize the boycott of buses?

8. What did the leaflet that Jo Anne Robinson produced tell people to do?

9. What was the verdict in Rosa Park’s trial?

10. Who did the Montgomery Improvement Association pick as the president of their organization?