Freedom Riders

In 1946 and 1960, the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregated public buses were ___________________.

• unconstitutional

• perfectly legal

• evil

• necessary

The FREEDOM RIDERS protested segregation laws __________________.

• by breaking them

• by posting signs in the bus windows

• by blocking roads

• in Georgia and Florida

The Freedom Riders expected to ___________________, and planned for it.

• be arrested

• be attacked

• be jailed

• all of these

The Freedom Riders hoped to

• gain media attention.

• make money.

• make friends with the police.

• have a good time.

Many of the Freedom Rides were sponsored by ______________.

• CORE and SNCC

• SPAR and the NAACP

• The SCLC

• President Kennedy

CORE stands for _______________________.

• The Congress of Racial Equality

• The Congress of Real Euphoria

• Certified Officers of Rider Equality

• It doesn't stand for anything. It's just a cool word.

In some locations, police allowed _____________________ to attack the Riders.

• Ku Klux Klan

• ordinary white citizens

• Both of these

The first Freedom Ride was led by CORE Director James Farmer, and included a young __________________.

• John Lewis

• Max Forthy

• Franklin Berlinger

• Michael J. Friend

On Mother's Day, 1961, in Alabama, members of a white mob forced a bus off the road and threw a __________________ into it.

• firebomb

• dead animal

• big rock

• bunch of bricks

President Kennedy called for _________________.

• a cooling-off period

• a new round of Freedom Rides

• the arrest of white citizens who had attacked Freedom Riders

• the arrest of CORE diectors