Tie Breaker
100
True or False: Martin Luther King's house with his wife and son was bombed in 1956.
False: Martin Luther King Jr.'s house with his wife and daughter was bombed in 1956.
100
True or False: The slogan said: "People - don't ride the buses today. Don't ride it for freedom"
True
100
True or False: The black population of Montgomery was 1/3 of 12 x 10^4
True
100
Rosa Parks styled her hair with a middle part or a side part?
Middle Part
200
Where did the Boycott take place? Name the city and state.
Montgomery, Alabama
200
Name 3 people involved in the boycott.
Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., ED Nixon, Jo Ann Robinson, etc.
200
How many days did the boycott last?
381 days
200
Which bus color wasn´t in our presentation that is very characteristic in buses from one country in specific?
Red
300
How many days did Nixon and the Women's Political Council have to organize the boycott and what was needed to be done preparation for the boycott?
They had 4 days to organize the boycott.
Nixon called a meeting of church ministers, college professors and other influencial people to persuade them to announce the plans in their sermons on the Sunday before the boycott, to distribute leaflets. And also persuade black-owned taxi companies to transport people at bus-fare rates.
The Women's Political Council stayed up half the night producing thousands of leaflets to publicize the boycott and distributed them in shops, schools, churches and bars.
300
What led to the boycott?
Thursday December 1st 1955
Rosa Parks, a 42 year-old woman climbed on one of the Montgomery’s segregated buses and sat on the ‘seats behind the white reserved ones
When the bus filled up, the driver ordered her to give up her seat to a white man
But she refused, which led to her being arrested
300
What is the MIA and when and why was it formed?
The MIA is the Montgomery Improvement Association formed in December 5, 1955. It was created in order to coordinate the boycott and ensure the extention of the boycott in order to force the bus companies to agree to their demands.
300
What festivity is celebrated every last Thursday of February?
The day of the Tostada 
400
How many buses are in the presentation?
(Only count the buses that were seen from the outside, but do remember to count the drawings and signs)
Six
400
What were the boycott's 3 objectives
1. More courteous treatment of black passengers
2. Seating on a first-come, first-served basis with whole filling the bus from the front and blacks from the back
3. The employment of some black drivers
400
For what role was Martin Luther King Jr. hired and what did he have to do?
He was a 26-year-old Baptist minister, who was invited to be the president of the MIA. He was a black highly educated person, good speaker and independent minded.
He was asked to address a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church on the evening of the initial boycott. He struck a chord with his listeners and instilled belief in their moral authority. The impact of his speech was able to inspire and galvanize the thousands who attended.
500
Who was Emmet Till and what happened to him?
He was a 14 year-old boy from Chicago, who in 1955 spent a summer with his relatives in the South. When leaving a shop, he said 'Bye, baby' to a white female older cashier. The woman's husband and his half brother beat him to death before dumping his body in a nearby river. When the mutilated body was found, his mother placed it in an open coffin to show what they did to him. It had a great effect on many people and encouraged them to become civil rights activists.
500
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful in:
Eliciting a Supreme Court in ruling in black favor
Eliciting a climbdown by the bus company
Demonstrating they could exploit their economic power
Demonstrating that organized, collective action could achieve advances in civil rights
500
Which one of us was the one that said the objectives of the boycott in the ninth slide?
Mechi