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?