Challenging Segregation SWBAT: Skim pages 749-753. -SNCC “snick” (stands for? Why was it started?): -Freedom Riders (what did they do?): -Bull Connor (who.

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Challenging Segregation SWBAT: Skim pages SNCC “snick” (stands for? Why was it started?): -Freedom Riders (what did they do?): -Bull Connor (who was he?): -James Meredith (what happened to him?) -Emmett Till (I’ll give you info) -Why did MLK choose Birmingham for a demonstration/march? SIN #49

SNCC “snick” Student nonviolent coordinating committee Ella Baker started Wanted students to create organization separate from NAACP to help register voters in south

Freedom Riders 1961 teams of African Americans traveled into deep south to draw attention to South's refusal to integrate bus terminals Violence in Birmingham Alabama Bull Connor- police chief in Birmingham, did nothing to stop violence

James Meredith African American air force veteran who applied to attend Univ of Mississippi Governor refused, Kennedy sent 500 marshals to escort Meredith to class Angry mob attacked, used tear gas, people worried gov’t was losing control of situation

Emmett Till- summer year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Till's murder and open casket funeral fired up the emerging Civil Rights Movement.

MLK chooses Birmingham for march… Saw president only intervened when things got violent Knew Alabama would provoke violent response MLK arrested- Letter from Birmingham Jail Bull Connor runs for mayor of Alabama

GR ch 16 sec 2 only #49 cont. Due Monday Start page 749

sncchttps:// freedom riders 5 min pbs freedom riders 2 hrs