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