Question 14 • CMS 2025-2026 English I CREDIT RECOVERY
Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.” The southern state of Alabama was a stronghold for Jim Crow practices. Nevertheless, the UMWA was able to bridge the racial divide in that state, forming a powerful interracial labor union fifty years before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s would make racial integration the rule of the land. In the context of Alabama in the 1900s, the UMWA was culturally and historically significant because it
Answer
A
supported coal mining companies.
B
supported the civil rights movement.
C
was a segregated organization.
D
was an interracial organization.
Explanation
The excerpt says Alabama had strong Jim Crow practices, but the UMWA bridged the racial divide by forming a powerful interracial labor union. This made the union culturally and historically significant: it brought Black and white workers together decades before the civil rights movement made integration more widely accepted. The correct choice is “was an interracial organization.”
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