1. Freedom Rider and the Sit-ins
1960s - Civil Rights Movement - Blacks and Whites get involved - SNCC

2. Freedom Riders
✤ The SNCC and others decided
to test whether coach travel
across States in America had
been integrated.
✤ They went on Freedom Rides
across America.

3. There was a lot of resistance
In the South

4. Sit ins
✤ Mainly organised by students
(some white students travelled
down from the North)
✤ SNCC
✤ The 1960s was an era of hope -
JFK was the new President and
he was young and fun!
✤ The aim was to end
segregation at lunch counters

5. There was a lot of resistance
In the South

6. Your learning
✤ Both these protests were ✤ It also persuaded more liberal
peaceful Whites that something had to
be done
✤ There was a sense of working
together - Blacks and Whites ✤ Once the Civil Rights Act (1964)
and North and South and the Voting Rights Act
(1965) were passed we see a
✤ The violent reaction against change in the movement
them was shown across the
USA and across the World - this ✤ More violent
caused embarrassment for the
government ✤ Less cooperation with Whites