The document discusses the Freedom Riders and sit-ins during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. The Freedom Riders tested segregation in interstate bus travel by riding buses through the South. They faced resistance. Sit-ins involved students peacefully protesting segregation at lunch counters through non-violent demonstrations, which also faced resistance in the South. Both protests helped raise awareness of racial inequality and persuaded some whites and the government that reforms were needed.

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