Who is Who:Big Names
Born in Alabama, he was inspired by MLK, the concepts of nonviolent protest and racial injustice to become a leader in the Civil Rights movement. He loved chickens as a child.
John Lewis
When an author gives the reader a hint of what is coming in the story ahead.
foreshadow
When blacks and whites must attend separate schools, pray in separate churches, drink from separate drinking fountains and eat in separate restaurants.
segregation
What is it called when someone writes their life story?
biography
When someone is hung without a court trial, often by a mob.
lynching
The most famous Civil Rights leader, he inspired John Lewis to join the Civil Rights movement. He led the Montgomery Bus boycott and has a memorial on the National Mall.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a story leaps back in time.
flashback
When farmers pay the land owners the rent, usually half the crops that were raised that year. A system used to keep blacks poor and landless.
sharecropping
The chicken that John Lewis loved as a child.
Lil Pullet
John Lewis used one to warm chicken eggs.
incubator
Brutally murdered by white men, this 14 year old boy's mother opened his coffin to the world and the media and insprired thousands to join the Civil Rights Movement.
Emmett Till
The main character of a story.
protagonist
What does SNCC stand for?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
When advocates for social change achieve goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic and political noncooperation, without using violence.
non-violent resistance
In the list of keynote speakers during the march on Washington, what number was John Lewis?
4
The first black president, his inaugeration day is the opening setting to the graphic novel, "MARCH", the John Lewis story.
Barack Obama
When writing conveys information, educates and informs.
expository writing
When segregation is legalized in the judicial system by law.
Jim Crow laws
Traveling to New York, John Lewis is forever changed by what he sees, this event is the beginning the process of John Lewis maturing from a child into a young adult.
coming of age
Jacob and Esau
Inspired by the murder of Emmett Till to join the Civil Rights Movement, she was with John Lewis at Barack Obama's inaugeration. She was the woman who refused to move to the back of the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks
When a story is told by person who speaks using "I" and tells the story from his or her point of view.
First person narrative.
What type of protect does John Lewis lead?
Sit-in, nonviolent protest
The event that John Lewis uses to foreshadow the Civil Rights Movement opens his graphic novel March.
Bloody Sundy on the Selma Bridge.
How much money John Lewis' dad spent to buy the family farm in Alabama.
$300