Chapter 1: “Jim Crow and the Detested Number Ten”
What number was associated with a segregated bus seat that Claudette Colvin detested?
What is ten?
What nickname did Claudette get as a child?
What is Coot?
What school did Claudette attend in Montgomery?
What is Booker T. Washington High School?
What date did Claudette refuse to give up her bus seat?
What is March 2, 1955?
What was the immediate reaction from people around Claudette after her arrest?
What is they avoided her or whispered about her?
What term refers to the strict racial segregation laws in the South?
What is Jim Crow?
Who raised Claudette after her birth parents separated?
Who are Mary Ann and Q.P. Colvin?
What emotion did Claudette feel on her first day of high school?
What is loneliness or sadness?
What type of fare did Claudette use on the bus?
What is a student coupon (pink half-fare ticket)?
Who was Fred Gray?
What is Claudette’s lawyer and future major civil rights attorney?
What painful lesson did Claudette learn in the general store about race?
What is that she wasn’t allowed to touch a white person?
What tragic event shaped Claudette’s early years?
What is the death of her sister, Delphine?
What contributed to feelings of inferiority among Black students?
What is skin tone and hair texture?
Why did Claudette refuse to move for the white passenger?
What is she felt it was her constitutional right to keep her seat?
How did Claudette feel about being called “crazy”?
What is hurt and frustrated, as she believed in what she did?
How did Claudette’s mother react when she touched a white boy’s hand?
What is she slapped her and reminded her of the rules of segregation?
What type of school did Claudette attend in Pine Level?
What is a one-room schoolhouse?
What did Claudette struggle with after Delphine’s death?
What is her faith and identity?
What did Claudette shout to the police as they arrested her?
What is “It’s my constitutional right!”
How did the black community initially respond to Claudette’s arrest?
What is with hesitation; she wasn’t supported like Rosa Parks later was.
How does the author use Claudette’s early memory to introduce the theme of injustice?
What is by showing how racism shaped her childhood and identity from a young age?
Why did Claudette’s family mark spoiled eggs with an “H”?
What is “H” for Hitler, during WWII, showing their awareness of world events?
How does the chapter title connect to Claudette’s experiences at school?
What is it reflects internalized racism and pressure to look “almost white”?
How did Claudette’s action on the bus foreshadow her later role in civil rights history?
What is it marked her as a trailblazer willing to challenge injustice directly?
Why did Claudette struggle with being seen as the face of the movement?
What is she was young, dark-skinned, and from a working-class background?