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Boycotts
1. What's the meaning of "Free Ride"?
2. As you know, boycotts were always stopped before they could be entirely successful, but why do you think whites wanted the blacks to use the public transportation instead of by their own means?
1. What significance does the empty bench have?
2. What was the purpose of boycotting a public transportation in this particular time period?
Sit-Ins
1. Who organized the freedom rides?
2. Why do you think the freedom riders, and many other civil rights activists, sang songs while participatin in a non-violent movement?
3. Walter Bergman urged others to join the cause and "strike while the iron was hot", why?
4. Why would Jim Zwerg be beaten almost the worst out of all the riders on the bus?
Freedom Rides
Marches
Voter Registration
Essential Question #4: How have individuals responded to discrimination?
Essential Question #1: How does America group its citizens?
1. What were your thoughts when you first looked at this picture?
2. What irony can you find with this picture taken in Jackson, Mississippi at the Woolworth sit-in?
1. In Harlem, New York, 15,000 protesters got together to end discrimination. What was so ironic about this particular march?
2. Dr. King asks the police for a few minutes in order to do what?
3. Why was this march in Alabama a turning point?
1. Who do you think the older white man was in the video?
2. Why would the boys sing to the ladies?
3. Would you personally have given up your mattress? Why or why not?
1. Notice that the people holding the American flag are white, why do you think this is important?
2. Knowing the consequences and fear of marches, would you still participate in an active march to end something you didn't agree with?
1. How do you think African Americans throughout America felt when the Voting Rights act of 1965 was signed by Lydon B. Johnson?
1.. Who do you think was responsible for the bombings of homes, grocery stores, and the Society Hill church in McComb?
2. What organization helped to register African Americans to vote?
3. What haunted one of the men who helped register African Americans to vote?
Due to the popularity of slavery in America prior to the ideas of Civil Rights, white Americans had the idea that African Americans were inferior to the 'white race.' African Americans would then be granted less rights than whites until laws were passed and the question of equality would further be challenged in the centuries to come. Based on America's past and even present ideas, group placement of it's citizens will always occur; whether the grouping is positive or negative.
Individuals responded with 5 non-violent tactics: Boycotts, Sit-Ins, Freedom Rides, Marches, and Voter Registration. Non-Violent tactics were demonstrated by African Americans who were trying to get equal Civil Rights as white people in America. Many white Americans had a problem with the uprising of 'Black Power' but eventually, as time has shown, the non-violent tactics have succeeded.
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