1. Civil Rights Protests
Objective: Describe the significance of the various forms of protest on the Civil Rights movement.

5. Sit -ins
Sit-in – protest where people sit in a place and refuse to move until their demands are met.

6. As sit-ins spread, segregationists began to abuse protesters
Effective protest tactic – forced many stores with lunch counters to serve African Americans

7. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is formed (SNCC) – organization primarily formed by and for young people

8. Freedom Rides
1960 – Supreme Court rules bus stations could not be segregated
May, 1961 – CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) planned Freedom Rides to find out if South was enforcing ruling

9. Purpose was to desegregate interstate buses (buses that travel between states)
Would attempt to use ‘white only’ facilities at bus terminals

10. Freedom riders would be attacked, arrested, and jailed
Kennedy sent federal marshals to protect the riders

11. Federal government issued new rules banning segregation on interstate buses and in bus stations
Riders achieve their goal

12. Higher Education
1962 – University of Mississippi ordered to enroll first African American student – James Meredith
Mississippi Governor and state police blocked the registration

13. Riot broke out
Kennedy sent federal marshals to protect Meredith

14. June, 1963 – Alabama governor vowed to block integration of the University of Alabama
Alabama National Guard sent in
Governor Wallace backed down