Question
E. D. Nixon founded this city’s namesake “improvement association” to organize an event with Ralph Abernathy. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city. Rosa Parks’s arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in this city prompted a namesake “bus boycott.”
ANSWER: Montgomery, Alabama [accept the Montgomery Bus Boycott]
[10h] This activist was arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a Montgomery bus. With the assistance of Fred Gray, this activist won a lawsuit against Montgomery mayor W. A. Gayle.
ANSWER: Aurelia Browder [or Aurelia Shines Browder Coleman; accept Browder v. Gayle]
[10m] This woman was one of the plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle. Nine months before Rosa Parks’s arrest, this activist was also arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman.
ANSWER: Claudette Colvin [or Claudette Austin]
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Summary
2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 88% | 25% |
Data
Columbia A | Yale C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Columbia B | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Haverford | Penn B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Penn A | Princeton B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Rutgers A | Princeton A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Rutgers B | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Cornell C | Vassar | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Yale B | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |