HIST 150C3 1st Edition Lecture 22“Ain’t Scared of Your Jails”Ben WestMayor of Nashville, agrees segregation is morally wrongDiane NashLeads students to first sit inJames LawsonOrganizes studentsElla BakerStudent of black collegeStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)youth could be a real force to change, spring 1960Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)Pressures KennedyFreedom Rides, 1961Interracial group ride through the southGov. John PattersonGovernor of Alabama, refuses to be a bus driver for freedom ridersJohn SeigenthalerKennedy sends him to Alabama1. How did James Lawson prepare Fisk students for nonviolent direct action?By teaching them to not fight back or insultThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.2. Why didn’t most white residents of Nashville take the sit-ins seriously in its early stages? How did this change?They thought it was student agitators that weren’t from their area. They thought it was “not their negro.” It changed by the student community started backing them.3. How did black residents of Nashville use economic pressure to protest segregation?By not buying things from stores downtown4. What role did Ella Baker play in the organization of the students after the sit-ins?She gave direction to the organization5. Why was John F. Kennedy’s response to the arrest of Martin Luther King in Atlanta a turning point in the president’s relationship to the civil rights movement?Kennedy called King’s wife and the judge to get King out of jail. Kennedy’s phone calls ended up being a smart political move. Black ministers came out and supported him on Election Day. It ended up being very close but he won.6. What did the Freedom Riders encounter in Aniston and Birmingham, Alabama? How/why was Jackson, Mississippi, different?A mob fire bombed a bus and blocked exits. 12 of the riders were hospitalized and the bus was destroyed. The second bus in Birmingham had a man on it that got beaten twiceby
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