Freedom Rides: Campaign for EqualityCapstone, 2007 - 96 páginas This book describes the 1961 freedom rides when African Americans and white civil rights activists traveled on buses to the South to test a U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that interstate bus stations had to be integrated. |
Contenido
CONTENTS | 8 |
The Growing Civil Rights Movement | 26 |
To Montgomery | 48 |
The Later Rides | 70 |
Timeline | 86 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abernathy African African-Americans Alabama American Anniston arrested Atlanta attacked Attorney General Robert Birmingham challenged segregation Chapter church city police civil rights activists civil rights groups civil rights movement college students colored Congress Connor continue the Freedom CORE crowd decision Diane Nash end segregation federal government Fred Shuttlesworth Freedom Riders Freedom Summer Georgia Greensboro Greyhound bus group of riders interstate buses Jackson James Farmer Jim Zwerg John Lewis Journey of Reconciliation Klan members Klux Klan lunch counter Luther King Jr Martin Luther King Montgomery Bus Boycott NAACP Nashville National Guard troops night nonviolent protest North Carolina officials organization Orleans Plessy President John F Racial Justice riders left Riders traveled Robert Kennedy SCLC second wave segregation laws sit-in SNCC South Southern Struggle for Racial Tennessee thousands of African-Americans told U.S. marshals U.S. Supreme Court unconstitutional Virginia voter registration wave of Freedom wave of riders whites-only section York