Civil Rights: Freedom Riders and Sit-Ins

The freedom riders were groups of only African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, which were bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated restaurants.

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Answer explanation

The Freedom riders protested segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals.

The Freedom Ride groups were confronted by polite police officers—as well as welcoming hand shakes and hellos from white southerns—along their routes

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Answer explanation

The Freedom Ride groups were usually attacked, shot at, or arrested.

What were possible risk of joining in the Freedom Rides?

• Death

• Jail

• Extreme Violence

• All of these

Why didn't Freedom Riders fight back when attacked?

• They stood for non-violence

• They did not have an army

• They were weak and could not fight

• They did fight back.

What was the main goal of the Freedom Riders?

• To gain freedom from slavery

• To desegregate the South

• To eat at the same restaurants as white people.

• To desegregate the North.

What state did Martin Luther King, Jr. say they would not make it through?

• Alabama

• Georgia

• Florida

• Texas

What does the following quote mean: "The first Greensboro sit-in was not spontaneous"?

• The sit in was planned well in advance.

• The sit in happened in the heat of the moment.

• The restaurant owner during the sit in knew it was going to happen.

• The sit in was planned that same day.

What happened to the freedom riders at Anniston?

• Celebrations

• Fire Bombing

• Public Support

• Press Suoport

What is a sit in?

• Sitting on a bus in an area where you are not allowed as a form of protest.

• Sitting in an area where you are not allowed as a form of protest.

• Sitting on the floor rather than a chair as a form of protest.

• Sitting outside a restaurant or movie theatre as a form of protest.

In which part of the restaurant did the sit-in take place?

• Right outside the door

• The lunch counter

• In the booths of the restaurant

• On the floor