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Ole Miss: Kennedy’s debacle Gov. Barnett Interposition James Meredith

Sit Ins and SNCC 1959 Jim Lawson starts giving his workshops on non-violence (CORE activist) Feb 1-5, 1960 Greensboro sit ins spread April South wide Youth Leadership Conference between 120, 145, 200 and 300 (Shaw University) founding of SNCC; Nashville student as lead branch

By December ,000 students had sat in, marched, or picketed (7 times UWEC’s total student population) 3600 gone to jail

SNCC Notes Feb Durham and Winston-Salem (NC) Feb 13-may Nashville March 15, Atlanta March 19, 1960 San Antonio integrated lunch counters SNCC had few formal leaders, everyone just does what needs to be done

Greensboro 4 Seated at the Woolworth's lunch counter in one of the first days of the Greensboro sit-ins are Ezell Blair (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond.

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Part paper possibility Glance at the million mom march on Sunday The philosophy is not important here, you can disagree with them Will they utilize effectively the tactics of the CR movement? (direct action, targeted marching)

will this march influence the people who they wish to influence? Fulfill their goals of greater enforcement and more gun control laws? If not, what will they do that is not effective?

Freedom Rides Rationales Civil Rights Act of 1960 CORE riders Feb 1961 –Aniston –Birmingham SNCC riders –Birmingham –Jackson, MISS

In hospital: William Barbee, John L. Lewis, James Farmer Feds on duty: John Seigenthaler, Ala Floyd Mann

Freedom Ride Map Background Map: 1961 Freedom Rides. [New York]: Associated Press Newsfeature, [1962]. Printed map and text.

Freedom Rides "At our first stop in Virginia... I [was] confronted with what the Southern white has called `separate but equal.' A modern rest station with gleaming counters and picture windows was labeled `White,' and a small wooden shack beside it was tagged `Colored.'" -- Freedom Rider William Mahoney

Colored Waiting Room

Burning Bus

Aniston

Burnt Bus: Aniston

The shell of the Bus

Jim Peck: CORE at Aniston

Jim Zwerg from Birmingham

Birmingham to Jackson

Representative John L. Lewis

James Farmer: CORE

James Forman: SCLC

1961 Wisconsin Meeting

How did segregationists try to derail the boycott? How did the blacks enforce unity in the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Why did the leaders of the Bus boycott request integration?

What were the goals of the Bus Boycott? What kind of violence happened? What was the black reaction? When did it end? What organization was born from the bus boycott?

CR leaders Civil Rights Leaders (L to R) John Lewis, Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer,and Roy Wilkins (photo courtesy Rep. Lewis)

Ain’t Afraid of Your Jails Why was Rosa Parks chosen as the reason to boycott? How did they organize the 1 day boycott? Why was King chosen to lead the movement? How did they manage to keep the boycott going? How did they organize transportation?