Race Relations Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Who did the Freedom Rides run ahead of? | King |
What happened in May 1961?? | James Farmer of CORE organised the 'Freedom Rides'. |
What did young blacks try to do during the freedom rides? | Exercise their legal right to travel on segregated interstate buses. |
What were the Freedom Rides an act of? | Calculated martyrdom - the riders knew they would be attacked. |
What happened when a first bus reached Alabama? | The tyres were slashed and the bus set on fire; the mob tried to hold the doors shut so that the passengers would be burned alive. |
What happened when a second bus reached Birmingham, Alabama? | The police and the KKK attacked the riders with clubs and chains as they left the bus. |
Who were especially badly beaten by the mob that appeared when the second bus reached Birmingham? | White Freedom Riders. |
In all, how many Freedom Rides were there? Involving how many people? | There were 60 Freedom Rides involving 450 very brave people. |
What happened to most of the Freedom Riders? | They were beaten and/or imprisoned. |
While they waited for connections, what did the Freedom Riders do? | Also go and break the rules in segregated restaurants and hotels. |
What was the SNCC? | The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Who participated in the Freedom Rides? | Many SNCC students. |
Who supported the Freedom Rides? | Martin Luther King |
What was the SCLC? | The Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
What did CORE, SNCC and SCLC all ignore? | The government's requests to stop the unrest. |
In the end what happened (after the CORE, SNCC and SCLC all ignored to government's requests to stop the unrest)? | Attorney General Robert Kennedy had to act to enforce the Supreme Court's decision that segregation on interstate travel was illegal. |
When did James Farmer (of CORE) organise the Freedom Rides? | May 1961 |
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