29-2: The Triumphs of a Crusade

1. What was the goal of the freedom riders?

• To test Supreme Court decisions banning segregation on interstate bus routes and facilities in bus terminals

2. What was the Kennedy administration’s response?

• Kennedy sent U.S. marshals to protect them• He issued an order banning segregation in all

interstate travel facilities

3. What was the goal of the march on Washington?

• To persuade congress to pass Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill

4. Who attended the march?

• 250, 000 civil rights supporters including 75, 000 whites

• Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his “I have a dream.” speech

5. What was the goal of the Freedom Summer Project?

• To register African- American voters who could elect pro-civil right legislators

6. Who led the project? Who volunteered for it?

• Robert Moses was the leader of the voting project in Mississippi

• 1000 college students who were members of (SNCC), Student Non-violence Coordinating Committee, volunteered for the project

7. What role did the violence shown on television play in this march?• It convinced people

from across the nation to join the marchers

8. What did the march encourage President Johnson to do?• To ask Congress for

the quick passage of a voting rights bill (end poll taxes, literacy tests etc.)

9. What did the Voting Rights Act outlaw?• It eliminated the

illiteracy test

• It stated that federal examiners could enroll voters denied suffrage by local officials

“By the way, what's the big word?"

10. What did the law accomplish?

• It tripled the number of registered African American voters in the south

• It raised the registration of eligible African-American voters in the U.S. from 10% in 1964 to 60% in 1968

Fannie Lou Hamer

• A prominent member of (MFDP) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) who challenged Mississippi’s political structure