16. 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 Couriers and the Chicago / Defender to the Black
Americans in the South so they would / know
they were not alone." (Lines 1-4)
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"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"
(Lines 4-6)
0
"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)
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"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 51-547