Author Question: Why did a group of blacks in Nashville, Tennessee, form a black-owned bus company in 1905? A) The ... (Read 94 times)

joblessjake · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

Why did a group of blacks in Nashville, Tennessee, form a black-owned bus company in 1905?

A) The governor asked local blacks in the state to form their own bus line.
B) Local white-owned bus companies had gone out of business in the city.
C) The safety record of other bus companies was very poor.
D) Local blacks wanted to establish a transportation alternative to counter the discrimination posed by segregated buses.

Question 2

How did whites expect blacks to behave after the Civil War?

A) Black men were supposed to keep their hats on in the presence of a white person.
B) Black and white people could shake hands, but only if the black person looked the white person in the eye.
C) Black men were never to look at, and certainly never to touch, white women.
D) Blacks should behave coldly in the expectation that whites would treat them with respect.