Question

Which of the following lines from the text provides the best evidence for the connection between the Pullman Porters and Rosa Parks? “This is for the Pullman Porters who organized when people said / they couldn’t. And carried the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago / Defender to the black Americans in the South so they would / know they were not alone.” (Lines 1-4) “This is for the Pullman Porters who / helped Thurgood Marshall go south and come back north to fight / the fight that resulted in Brown v. Board of Education.” “This is about the / moment Rosa Parks shouldered her cross, put her worldly goods / aside, was willing to sacrifice her life, so that that young man in / Money, Mississippi, who had been so well protected by the / Pullman Porters, would not have died in vain.” (Lines 42-46) “Others would follow Mrs. Parks. Four young / men in Greensboro, North Carolina, would also say ``No. great / voices would be raised singing the praises of God and exhorting / us to forgive those who trespass against us.” (Lines 51-54)

Answer 1

"This is about the moment Rosa Parks shouldered her cross, put her worldly goods / aside, was willing

to sacrifice her life, so that that young man in / Money, Mississippi, who had been so well protected by

the / Pullman Porters, would not have died in vain." (Lines 42-46)