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The Road to Civil Rights Activities
B1
Read the article and find the missing Information in each sentence.
1. Rosa Parks started a
2. Indeed, she
that changed life for all African Americans.
to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
3. It was an obligation for black people to
4. Most
the seats on buses for
people.
Americans didn't have,
rights with Whites.
6. Segregation means there is a
states, like Alabama.
separation.
7. So black people couldn't go to the same
or
5. It was particularly difficult in the
8. When Rosa Parks was arrested, a lot of people decided to
9. The bus boycott was a
protest.
10. By boycotting the bus, African Americans had to
or school.
or
to get to work
11. The boycott did not please certain white people and many black people suffered
12. The U.S. Supreme Court declared the bus segregation
13. It was a
14. There were
their
all over the country for the black community.
consequences for Rosa Parks and her
they both lost
and started a
15. However later, Rosa Parks got to work for a
to help young people.
B Match the numbers and dates to what they represent.
1. Number of people who went to MLK's church to vote
to continue the bus boycott.
2. The age of two teenagers: Claudette Colvin and
Mary Louise Smith, who suffered discrimination before Rosa Parks.
3. The day Rosa Parks was judged in court.
4. Rosa Parks' age when she died.
5. The state of Alabama accepted a Supreme Court decision
that buses mustn't be segregated.
6. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus.
7. The percentage of African Americans who actually participated
in the boycott.
8. The year of Rosa Parks' death.
a. 1 December 1955
b. 26
c. 50%
d. 99%
e. 5 December 1955
f. more than 1,000
g. 381
h. 15 and 18
i. 20 December 1956
9. Number of days of the boycott.
10. Rosa Parks received the Medal of Freedom.
11. The age of Martin Luther King when he became the leader of the MIA.
12. The percentage of African Americans expected to participate in the
boycott.
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