PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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Question
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The Freedom Riders ____
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Included young white students who supported the desegregation of of buses and equality and equal rights for African Americans.
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Were groups of white southern students who rode buses to make sure that African Americans did not try to integrate them.
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Were mainly older African Americans who challenged the segregation of interstate buses through sit in protests.
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Were white college students from the north who rode buses down south to help register voters.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored most of the subsequent Freedom Rides, but some were also organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Detailed explanation-2: -Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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