Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Eyes on the Prize (Episode 3) - Vocabulary

Sit-ins- A series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolsworth department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.

SNCC-  One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Freedom rides- Civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into segregated southern United States to test the U.S Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia.

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