Sit-ins and freedom rides Flashcards
What are sit-ins?
A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
What is a Freedom Ride?
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961.
Who influenced nonviolent Protests?
Martin Luther King Jr.
give an example of a sit in.
The Greensbro sit-ins were non violent protests that led to a sit in in woolworths where four black students sat down at the lunch counter , this was a whites only section and they were denied service because they were in the wrong section. The manager asked them to leave.
Why were freedom rides organised?
to bring attention to the fact that most transport in the southern states was still segregated even though the Supreme Court had ruled against this in 1956.
Who organised freedom Rides?
CORE ( Congress of Racial Equality )
As a result of sit ins what civil rights movement group formed?
SNCC ( Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee )
