Testing Out Supreme Court Rulings

What did the supreme court rule in 1956?

State transport must desegregate.

What were not part of the ruling in 1956 and remained segregated?

Bus station toilets and waiting rooms

What did the Supreme Court order in December 1960?

Desegregation of bus station facilities.

What did CORE do in 1961?

CORE activists ordered bus journeys from the North to the deep South.

Why did CORE organise buses to go from the north to the south?

To test whether desegregation was really happening.

What did CORE know?

Segregation still existed even after the Supreme Court’s rules.

What was CORE’s aim?

To create negative media coverage if segregation so that the federal government would act to force states to desegregate.