interstate is when a service exists between states - for example, buses travelling between states

direct action is the use of demonstrations or protest to achieve a goal, rather than negotiation

integrated groups are groups with both black and white Americans

Freedom rides: protests and progress for civil rights (1961)

History

This contextualises the later splintering of the Civil Rights Movement

Pupils know that civil rights activists were opposed to segregation

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

{{ }} is when a service exists between states.


all interstate transport facilities were to desegregate

transport services across the south were to desegregate

What was the outcome of the Supreme Court upholding the Boynton v. Virginia case?

‘Bull’ Connor gave all police officers the day off.

No one knew what time they were arriving.

The Freedom Riders had said they did not need it.

Why did the Freedom Riders have no police protection when they arrived in Birmingham?

Which President sent in US troops to protect the Freedom Riders?

By how much did membership of CORE increase following the Freedom Rides?

In which area was one of the buses was firebombed by a mob of nearly 200 racist white Americans?

To sit somewhere and refuse to move as a form of protest is know as a {{ }}

To {{ }} means to stop people being separated or kept apart by force. 

Four black students sit at a ‘white-only’ lunch counter in Woolworth’s.

300 students join the sit-in at Woolworth’s, Greensboro.

Sit-ins spread to 55 cities across 13 states.

Dining facilities across the south were being desegregated.

Starting with the earliest, place these events into chronological order.

Which organisation was founded at Shaw University, North Carolina, in 1960?


In which two of the following events did SNCC play a leading role?

 Which organisation did Stokely Carmichael and some other leaders of SNCC join in the late 1960s?