Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides

Civil Rights Movement in the US

Name the two main campaigns of the civil rights movement before it lost momentum

Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock Nine

What were the two civil rights organisations that were fighting battles in court and losing touch with grass-roots activists?

NAACP and SCLC

What two campaigns characterised the new phase of the civil rights movement?

sit-ins and freedom rides

Name the two organisations behind these youth protests

SNCC and CORE

Name the two key individuals in these organisations?

Diane Nash and James Farmer

Name the three ‘expert leaders’ in the civil rights movement

Martin Luther King Jr., Abernathy, and Thurgood Marshall

NASHVILLE SIT-INS

Who led roleplay workshops in nonviolence?

Jim Lawson

Where did protestors first do sit-ins

lunch counters

How long did it take for protestors to face intimidation and violence?

2 weeks

How many demonstrators were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after being attacked?

80

Name of the Mayor in Nashville

Mayor Ben West

Complete this quote of Mayor West at the start of the sit-ins: “_____, ______, and ______ ______ will be maintained in our city to the best of your ability”

Peace, quiet, and good order

What boycott did black residents of Nashville launch to target the economy downtown?

Easter Boycott

When did an event take place and persuade more people to join a march?

April 19th 1960

Dynamite was thrown into _______’s home at 5:30 in the morning

Z. Alexander Looby

What were Z. Alexander Looby’s two roles in Nashville?

Black city council and defense attourney for arrested students

How many windows did this blast shatter? And what building was this?

147 windows in Meharry Medical college

How many people joined this new march?

4000

When Diane Nash publicly asked Mayor West whether he was in favour of segregation, what was his reply?

Not in favour

Black customers were served for the first time in lunch counters and downtown stores how many weeks after West’s statement?

3

What organisation was formed as a result of this campaign?

SNCC

In the spring of 1960, how many veterans from Nashville and other cities attended an organising conference in North Carolina?

200

FREEDOM RIDES

Where was MLK arrested and charged in a student sit-in?

Atlanta

How many months of labour was he charged with?

4

Who did JFK call to express his sympathy?

MLK’s wife, Coretta Scott King

Who called the judge in Georgia to have MLK released?

Bobby Kennedy

What organisation could JFK use to stop segregation in interstate transport?

Interstate Commerce Commission ICC

Name the two cities where the freedom riders (first wave) were met with violence

Anniston and Birmingham

Where did these buses come from?

Atlanta, Georgia

How many riders were hospitalised?

12

Which activist took most of the beating in the bus outside Birmingham?

Jim Peck

Who was the Governor of Alabama?

John Patterson

Complete this quote by Patterson: “You can’t guarantee the safety of _____”

fools

Where did another major incident with freedom riders take place?

Montgomery

What was the name of the white activist who was brutally attacked by a KKK mob?

Jim Zwerg

In which church did MLK give a sermon after this?

First Baptist Church

What was MLK’s final message?

“We shall overcome”

Where did riders go to from Montgomery? where they were jailed immediately after arriving

Jackson, Mississippi

Who made a deal with Mississippi authorities to let this happen?

Bobby Kennedy

How many freedom riders had been arrested and sentenced in Jackson by the end of the summer of 1961?

300

When did the ICC comply with Bobby’s petition to ban segregation in interstate travel

september