Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.”The southern state of Alabama was a stronghold for Jim Crow practices. Nevertheless, the UMWA was able to bridge the racial divide in that state, forming a powerful interracial labor union fifty years before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s would make racial integration the rule of the land.
Which excerpt from the letter to the editor includes an opinion?
Read the excerpt from My Story.She took me up a flight of stairs (the cells were on the second level), through a door covered with iron mesh, and along a dimly lighted corridor. She placed me in an empty dark cell and slammed the door closed. She walked a few steps away, but then she turned around and came back. She said, "There are two girls around the other side, and if you want to go over there with them instead of being in a cell by yourself, I will take you over there.” I told her that it didn’t matter, but she said, "Let’s go around there, and then you won’t have to be in a cell alone.” It was her way of being nice. It didn’t make me feel any better.
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How is the tone in My Story different from the tone in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
Which is found in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" but not in My Story?
Read the excerpt from "On the Bus with Rosa Parks."RosaHow she sat there,the time right inside a placeso wrong it was ready.
Read the excerpt from My StoryAnother time he went to see about extending the route of the Day Street bus. Black people in a little community on the other side of the Day Street Bridge had to walk across the bridge, about half a mile, to get to the bus. Mr. Nixon went down to the bus company to protest. He was always going down to the bus company to protest; sometimes he went by himself, sometimes he took someone with him. He himself did not ride the buses—he had his own car; but he was acting on behalf of the community. The bus company told him that as long as the people were willing to walk the half mile and then pay to ride the rest of the way downtown, they had no need to extend the bus line.
Which correctly describes the narration in My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
Which statement correctly compares and contrasts My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
Read the excerpt from My Story. I did not go down with the others to present that petition to the bus company and the city officials, because I didn’t feel anything could be accomplished. I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
Which is found in My Story but not in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
In My Story, why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955?
Read the excerpt from My Story.It was unfair to segregate us. But neither the bus company nor the mayor nor the city commissioners would listen. I remember having discussions about how a boycott of the city buses would really hurt the bus company in its pocketbook. But I also remember asking a few people if they would be willing to stay off the buses to make things better for us, and them saying that they had too far to go to work. So it didn’t seem as if there would be much support for a boycott.
Read the excerpt from My Story.I wasn’t frightened at the jail. I was more resigned than anything else. I don’t recall being real angry, not enough to have an argument. I was just prepared to accept whatever I had to face. I asked again if I could make a telephone call. I was ignored.
Read the excerpt from "My First March.”"Hey, Mama?” I asked. "How can all these buses be going to the same place we’re going? I’ve never seen a building that could hold this many people.”"Well, we’re not going to a building,” Mama said. "We’re going to a march today. That means we’ll be walking through the streets all over our nation’s capital.”Now read the excerpt from "2000 Buses.”Two thousand buses, Twenty-one chartered trains, Ten special airlines, More cars than one could nameA mass meeting they called it,The March for Jobs and FreedomEqual access, Equal justice,For all, and not just some
Read the excerpt from President Kennedy's Report to the American People.This afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama.
The dates in the excerpt help the reader to determine that "American Indian Civil Rights” is structured by
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