Do Now 1)What was nonviolent protest? 2) What are some additional strategies might nonviolent protesters utilize?

Do Now

1) What was nonviolent protest?2) What are some additional strategies

might nonviolent protesters utilize?

Reminders

• Civil Rights Interview due FRIDAY!

10.7- Freedom Rides

• The U.S. Supreme Court prohibited segregation in interstate bus travel.

• Unofficial segregation continued in the South.• Freedom Rides- bus trips through the South

with black and white activists who tried to use segregated facilities.

Effects

• Violence met Freedom Riders throughout the South.

• May 14- a white mob firebombed one of the buses and beat the riders that tried to escape.

• The incident appears on the front page of newspapers around the country.

Federal Intervention

• The federal government forced Alabama’s governor to provide Freedom Riders with police protection.

• The promised protection did not happen.• Federal troops were sent to protect the riders.

Guided Practice

• Why were the freedom riders so successful?

Independent Practice

• 1) Read the secondary source.• 2) Answer the text-dependent questions

Homework

• Civil Rights Interview due FRIDAY!

Exit Ticket

• 1) What were the freedom rides?• 2) Who participated in the freedom rides?