Question

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1. (a) According to paragraph one, who was the first African American to challenge segregated transportation in the Jim Crow South?

(b) When (year) and in which state did this African American challenge the segregated transportation law?


2. Why did this African American board the 'white-only' train compartment of the train knowing that he would be arrested?


3. What did the Plessy ruling mean for racial segregation?


4. How was African Americans impacted by the Plessy ruling both in the South and elsewhere in the USA?

Answer 1

Black activists had begun to build a case to challenge state bus segregation laws around the arrest of a 15-year-old girl, Claudette Colvin, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery.