Life events
What Does it Mean?
Who and what?
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Who and What?
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This young boy was killed, and his mother's decision to open his coffin to the world educated the North, and the world, about the evils of segregation in the South. His death caused thousands to join the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
100
When the author gives a hint of what is to come in a story.
What is foreshadow?
100
The agricultural, or farming system, where tenants (often black tenants) pay half of their rent in crops. The system is designed to keep blacks poor.
What is sharecropping?
100
John Lewis was standing in front of his chickens, giving a sermon when he was a child.
What is practicing preaching?
100
The civil rights leader that John Lewis heard on the radio and met in person who inspired John Lewis to join the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
Four life events that John Lewis wrote about in his autobiographical graphic novel, March.
What are grew up poor in the South, raised chickens, preached at a young age, traveled North with his Uncle, heard MLK, Jr. on the radio, saw the impact of racial segregation as a child, wanted to go to Troy State, met MLK, Jr., went to college, met John Farmer, joined the Civil Rights movement, practiced non-violent resistance, got arrested, etc.
200
Laws that separate people based on race.
What is segregation?
200
He believed John Lewis had potential because he went to school, dressed nicely, and wanted to be a preacher.
Who is Uncle Otis?
200
John Lewis and Uncle Otis were driving by gas stations, and the signs said "white only" and "no colored".
What did John Lewis and his Uncle see on their trip up North, visual evidence of what segregation means?
200
The Supreme Court ruling that made segregation legal if both races received the same level of services.
What is separate but equal?
300
The reasons his parents decided not to support John Lewis desire to apply to Troy State.
What is the family farm could be burned, and he and his family could be beaten and abused?
300
The nickname in for segregation -- both legal (de jure) and by custom (de facto) in the South.
What is Jim Crow or Jim Crow segregation?
300
The first black president, his election was proof that America had changed from the days of Jim Crow segregation.
Who is Barack Obama?
300
Some people were pretending to kick one another, call each other names, spit on each other and other people were practicing calmly accepting it.
What is practicing non-violent resistance (practicing to accept violence when they protest)?
300
While it was not illegal for a black man to talk to a white woman, this boy was brutally murdered because he spoke or whistled at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
400
John Lewis starts telling his life story on this historic day. Something is happening that demonstrates how America has changed from the days of Jim Crow segregation.
What is Barack Obama, the first black president's, inauguration day?
400
When an author takes you back in time in a story.
What is a flashback?
400
The strategy that the protesters used to accept violence from the police and others and respond with calm, and, hopefully, love.
What is non-violent resistance?
400
Pictures of a shaking hand, a cut off hand and a hand holding a rope or a noose symbolized three great dreams of people who practiced non-violent resistance.
What are poverty, war and racism?
400
This man introduced and trained John Lewis about how to use non-violent resistance.
Who is Jim Farmer?
500
John Lewis meets Jim Farmer and is introduced to this strategy or tool that he, and others, will use to successfully to end legal segregation in the United States.
What is non-violent resistance?
500
When an author writes a book about his or her life story.
What is autobiography?
500
An example of this literary term is when John Lewis opens his story, he goes back in time to his childhood on a farm in Alabama.
What is a flashback?
500
A telephone ringing fills the page, foreshadowing what will happen next.
What is a phone call telling John Lewis his friend's house was bombed?
500
This literary terms is demonstrated by the story March opening on the bridge on the march to Selma, with John Lewis being beaten by the policy. The author is letting the reader that the struggle for civil rights would be long and hard.
What is foreshadow?
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