4.6 CORE

Question 1

1940s – Organised sit-ins a

Answer 1

Chicago restaurants & protested about segregation on transport.

Question 2

Involvement in Freedom Rides in 1961 - what is and what was it to create ?

Answer 2

White and black students - to test interstate travel where segregation had been declared unconstitutional.

To create a crisis so that the Federal government would have to intervene and ensure the law was upheld

(so that would force Fed Gov to enforce the SC decision (1960 Boyton v Virginia = dec racial seg on interstate buses uncon) )

. = Knew rides would lead to white backlash and violence.

Question 3

EWvents?

Answer 3

Bus attacked and burned in Alabama. Other Core members attacked and beaten in Birmingham, and Jackson. = media attention = reported on by national press, causing uproar outside the south.

Question 4

Evidence of state authorities allowing the violence and beatings.

Answer 4

November 1961 – Attorney General (R Kennedy) enforced S Court rulings = importance of federal intervention.

Question 5

Did James Farmer (founder of CORE) achieve the aims of freedom rides?

Answer 5

The federal interstate commerce commission and the US justice department under pres John F Kennedy bro - Robert F Kennedy issued orders to enforce integration on interstate buses

= effective from 1 Nov 1961 = all interstate buses and interstate facilities, such as waiting rooms, had to be racially integrated

Question 6

failures Freedom Rides in 1961

Answer 6

During WW2, many – unwilling to take part in protests, scared of provoking race riots.

Not wish to seem unpatriotic.

Focused on problems in the north until the 1960s

Question 7

CORE ALL ABOUT CONTEXT IDK

Answer 7

Founded in the north at the uni of chicago 1642.

Non-violent protest

(Context – WW2, Gandhi)

1940s – Organised sit-ins at Chicago restaurants & protested about segregation on transport.