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1. What was the goal of the freedom riders?
The goal of the freedom riders was to provoke a violent reaction by riding the buses so that the president would enforce the desegregation of buses law.

2. What was the Kennedy administration’s response?
The Kennedy administration sent 400 US marshals to protect the freedom riders on the last part of their journey. Also the attorney general and the Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation in all interstate travel facilities, waiting rooms, restrooms, and lunch counters.

3. What was the goal of the march on Washington?
The goal of the march on Washington was to help persuade Congress to pass a bill that guaranteed equal access to all public things and also to make it possible for the US attorney general to file school desegregation suits.

4. Who attended the march?
About 250,000 people, which included about 75,000 whites, and Martin Luther King Jr.

5. What was the goal of the Freedom Summer project?
The goal was to get congress to pass a voting rights act.

6. Who volunteered for the project?
Members of CORE and SNCC, and college students (mostly white) and about one third of the college students were women.

7. What role did the violence shown on television play in the Selma March?
The violence shown on television played a huge role in the Selma March. It showed America the violence that was going on to the demonstrators and led to President Johnson reaction right away.

8. What did the march encourage President Johnson to do?
He presented congress with a new voting rights act and asked for a swift passage of it.

9. What did the Voting Rights Act outlaw?
The Voting Rights Act outlawed the literacy tests, it also made it so federal officials could enroll voters who had been denied it by local officials.

10. What did the law accomplish?
The law tripled the amount of African American voters in the south. Explain Fannie Lou Hamer’s role in the civil rights movement.Fannie Lou Hammer was a woman who had been beaten in jail by her fellow inmates who were told to beat her by the police officers. She was jailed for registering to vote. She was the voice of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) which was created by SNCC in order to get African American’s voices into Mississippi’s democratic party. She helped lead to 2 of 68 seats in the Mississippi party being given to MFDP