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ChallengeToSegregate
Challenging Segregation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Purpose and origination of sit-ins | Purpose: Force desegregation of stores, restaurants, hotels, and movie theaters through nonviolence action Origin: Greensboro, North Carolina at a Woolworth's Department Store |
| Purpose and reactions to the Freedom Riders | Purpose: Desegregate interstate bus services in the South Reactions: Eugene "Bull" Connor worked with the KKK to attack peaceful protestors and bomb the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. |
| Impact of violence in Birmingham, Alabama | Americans were horrified by these actions and could no longer hide from the horrors of racism. |
| Define: Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Segregation on the grounds of race, religion, or nation origin was banned at all places of public accommodation and discrimination by employers and labor unions. Forbids the use of federal funds for any discrimination program |
| Purpose of the Selma March | A response to states continuing to deny African Americans the right to vote and to protest the systematic disenfranchisement of Black Americans and secure their constitutional right to vote. |
| Define: Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Outlawed literacy test and required Federal examiners to register qualified citizens to vote |