Freedom Riders

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.

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

The Freedom Riders civil rights actions took place in ... .

• 1948

• 1954

• 1961

• 1991

The Freedom Riders traveled through the ... United States.

• Northern

• Western

• Southern

There were ... original Freedom Riders.

• six

• thirteen

• eighteen

Who was the Freedom Rider who was beaten in Rock Hill, South Carolina? He was a seminary student and a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He would later serve 34 years as a U.S. Congressman representing the state of Georgia.

• Stokely Carmichael

• Albert Bigelow

• John Lewis