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The tactics, campaigns and discipline of nonviolent direct action from Montgomery to Selma.
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Beginning in February 1960, Black college students in Nashville walked into downtown stores, sat at counters that served only white customers, and stayed in their seats when they were refused service. What was this tactic called?
In May 1961 an interracial group boarded buses in Washington, D.C. bound for New Orleans, with Black riders using whites-only waiting rooms and restrooms at terminals along the route. What was this campaign called?
Arrested at a McCrory's lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in early 1961, nine students refused to pay the $100 fine or post bond and served 30 days of hard labor instead. What was this tactic called?
For 381 days beginning in December 1955, Black residents of an Alabama city walked or rode in an organized carpool of about 300 cars rather than pay fares on segregated buses. What campaign was this?
In early May 1963 hundreds of Black schoolchildren left a Birmingham church in waves to march downtown and fill the jails, and on later days were knocked down by high-pressure fire hoses and faced police dogs. What is this called?
In the summer of 1964 hundreds of mostly white northern college students went to Mississippi to teach in Freedom Schools and register Black voters alongside SNCC and CORE organizers. What was this project called?
On March 7, 1965, about 600 marchers heading for Alabama's state capital were clubbed and tear-gassed by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. What campaign did that attack open?
From 1960 on, interracial groups presented themselves at the doors of white Southern churches on Sunday mornings and asked to be seated, and were met by ushers who turned them away. What was this tactic called?
From late 1961 into the summer of 1962, marches and mass meetings in one southern city produced more than a thousand arrests and no desegregation agreement, and King left admitting he had not won. What campaign was this?
Before the 1961 bus trips, volunteers rehearsed in workshops where others shouted slurs at them, shoved them and poured drinks over them while they practiced not responding. What was this training meant to ensure?
Rather than simply telling people to stay home, Montgomery's organizers ran a carpool of about 300 cars with dispatchers and pickup stations across the city. What did the carpool do for the protest?
Sit-in and Freedom Ride organizers deliberately sent more volunteers than a local jail could hold, and arrested demonstrators refused to post bond. What was this meant to accomplish?
In 1963 SCLC chose Birmingham partly because its public safety commissioner, Bull Connor, was known to answer protest with force. Why would organizers pick such a place after Albany?
Alongside the Birmingham marches, organizers asked Black shoppers to stay out of downtown stores through the Easter season, the busiest retail weeks of the year. What did this add to the campaign?
In 1965 organizers in Dallas County, Alabama chose to walk the 54 miles to the state capitol rather than only file suits over the county's registration tests. What was the march meant to do?
Sit-in students came to the counters in coats and ties or church dresses, brought schoolwork with them, and were instructed not to answer taunts. Why did organizers insist on this?
The 1961 Freedom Rides ended with hundreds of riders jailed in Mississippi, but they also produced a federal action later that year. What was it?
What did the Nashville sit-ins and the downtown boycott that went with them achieve on May 10, 1960?
Nearly six months after four students first sat down there, what happened at the Greensboro Woolworth's on July 25, 1960?
What did the Birmingham campaign win in the agreement announced on May 10, 1963?
About 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 for a march whose full name was "for Jobs and Freedom." What were its organizers demanding?
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, built during the 1964 registration drive, challenged the seating of the state's all-white delegation at that year's Democratic convention. How was the challenge settled?
After the events in Alabama in March 1965, President Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress and sent it a voting bill. What did Congress pass that August?
Place these four events in the order they took place. 1. Freedom Summer in Mississippi 2. The Greensboro sit-in 3. The March on Washington 4. The Freedom Rides through Alabama
A Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders had its tires slashed by a mob, was chased out of town and was firebombed at the roadside on May 14, 1961. Near which Alabama town did this happen?
The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1961 and was scheduled to reach its destination on May 17. Which city were the riders trying to reach?
Place these three Birmingham events of 1963 in order. 1. Fire hoses and police dogs are turned on marching schoolchildren 2. Merchants and city leaders announce an agreement 3. King answers eight white clergymen from a jail cell
Jailed in Birmingham in April 1963, King wrote that nonviolent direct action "seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue." What is his claim?
At the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, King said: "This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism." What is he arguing against?
SNCC's statement of purpose, adopted in April 1960, begins: "We affirm the philosophical or religious ideal of nonviolence as the foundation of our purpose, the presupposition of our belief, and the manner of our action." What does it claim?
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