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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
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