PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Drink from a whites-only water tap
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Attack white men
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Enter a whites-only waiting room
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Drive the bus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.
Detailed explanation-3: -On May 9, 1961, the Riders encounter violence at the Rock Hill Greyhound bus terminal. African American John Lewis and other Riders are attacked by a mob of twenty while trying to use the white waiting room. The police eventually intervene and all Freedom Riders are allowed to use the waiting room.
Detailed explanation-4: -Virginia decision of 1960, which extended the earlier ruling to include bus terminals, restrooms, and other facilities associated with interstate travel, a group of seven African Americans and six whites left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, on a Freedom Ride in two buses bound for New Orleans.