Freedom Riders Train for Non-Violent Civil Rights Protest | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

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Classroom Material
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Civics Civics Collection social studies civics and government government civ23 nonviolence civil rights movement civil rights James Lawson Nashville sit-ins desegregation freedom rides freedom riders Julian Bond
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History-Social Science
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Classroom Teacher / Educator
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Freedom Riders Train for Non-Violent Civil Rights Protest | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn how students in Nashville, Tennessee, prepared for civil rights protests by training in the techniques of nonviolent direct action in this excerpt from Freedom Riders | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. This training prepared them for desegregation sit-ins focused on the Nashville community and made them ideal reinforcements when attacks by White mobs decimated the ranks of the first Freedom Riders in 1961.
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