Cilvil Rights Movment Dbq
Phase 1 civil rights movement of 1960
1958-1960 Bruce Boynton was an african american student at Howard University Law School in Washington. He boarded a train for a trip to Montgomery Alabama. On a stop in Richmond. Boynton sat down in the white section of the dinning area and refused to move to the colored section. He was arrested for trespass and fined $10.
December 5, 1960 Boynton v. Virginia The supreme court said the interstate passengers were protected by the Interstate Commerce Act The case of boynton is tied to the freedom rides in what way DOCUMENT A
Boynton inspired CORE to adapt the Journey of Reconciliation for a new campaign of integration through the South. This was not the first time CORE had considered reviving the campaign. Billie Ames, a St. Louis woman who served as CORE's national group coordinator, had proposed a "Ride for Freedom" in 1954 to challenge segregated railway coaches and terminals. Family obligations, however, forced her to abandon the plan. [ In the wake of the Boynton ruling, however, CORE revived the idea.
Arsenault explained that the revival came about because CORE members had written to ask why neither Morgan nor Boynton was being enforced. The new director of CORE, James Farmer, asked his staff how to answer the questions he was receiving:
To his surprise, two staff members had already come up with a tentative plan to address the problem of nonenforcement. As Gordon Carey explained, during an unexpectedly long bus trip from South Carolina to New York in mid-January, he and Tom Gaither had discussed the feasibility of a second Journey of Reconciliation. Adapting the phrase "Ride for Freedom" originated by Billie Ames in the mid-1950s, they had come up with a catchy name for the project: "Freedom Ride." Thanks to a blizzard that forced them to spend a night on the floor of a Howard Johnson's restaurant along the New Jersey Turnpike, they had even gone so far as to map out a proposed route from
1958-1960 Bruce Boynton was an african american student at Howard University Law School in Washington. He boarded a train for a trip to Montgomery Alabama. On a stop in Richmond. Boynton sat down in the white section of the dinning area and refused to move to the colored section. He was arrested for trespass and fined $10.
December 5, 1960 Boynton v. Virginia The supreme court said the interstate passengers were protected by the Interstate Commerce Act The case of boynton is tied to the freedom rides in what way DOCUMENT A
Boynton inspired CORE to adapt the Journey of Reconciliation for a new campaign of integration through the South. This was not the first time CORE had considered reviving the campaign. Billie Ames, a St. Louis woman who served as CORE's national group coordinator, had proposed a "Ride for Freedom" in 1954 to challenge segregated railway coaches and terminals. Family obligations, however, forced her to abandon the plan. [ In the wake of the Boynton ruling, however, CORE revived the idea.
Arsenault explained that the revival came about because CORE members had written to ask why neither Morgan nor Boynton was being enforced. The new director of CORE, James Farmer, asked his staff how to answer the questions he was receiving:
To his surprise, two staff members had already come up with a tentative plan to address the problem of nonenforcement. As Gordon Carey explained, during an unexpectedly long bus trip from South Carolina to New York in mid-January, he and Tom Gaither had discussed the feasibility of a second Journey of Reconciliation. Adapting the phrase "Ride for Freedom" originated by Billie Ames in the mid-1950s, they had come up with a catchy name for the project: "Freedom Ride." Thanks to a blizzard that forced them to spend a night on the floor of a Howard Johnson's restaurant along the New Jersey Turnpike, they had even gone so far as to map out a proposed route from