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Focus Question: How did the actions of student activists build momentum within the black freedom struggle? Determining Significance: Signal Words: Chronology, chain of events Signal words: First, second, next, finally, subsequently, afterwards, until, previously, before, until, during Time Markers/ Transition Words Event Significance to Content Question in 1954 the Supreme Court ordered schools to desegregate This case built momentum for the freedom movement since the Supreme court set a precedent that “separate but equal” was illegal and therefore the future actions of students would try to apply this ruling to other public places as their expectations increased and they were placed on the front lines of integration. In the spring of 1960 four African American freshmen from North Carolina A&T staged a sit in The actions of these students built momentum for the freedom movement because “twenty-three other students” had joined the sit-ins the following day including “some white students from a local women’s college.” Furthermore, “reporters began covering the and within weeks, similar protests had spread to southern cities . . . . In the North, too, thousands of whites and African American students sat in at Woolworth’s counters to protest the chain’s enforcement of southern segregation.” Consequently, the “tactics gave news teams plenty of vivid footage-- and won the protestors plenty of publicity.” a few months after the Greensboro sit-ins The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - pronounced “Snick”, was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina The founding of SNCC gave young people an organizational home from which they could set their own agenda. The actions of these students built momentum for the freedom movement because it “influenced other civil rights organizations” such as CORE to carry on the freedom rides. In the spring of 1961 the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) -founded in 1941 - organized the first freedom rides to test the federal court order to desegregate buses and terminals The actions of these students built momentum for the freedom movement because the violent attacks endured by the freedom riders were televised and “undermining the United States’ image abroad at an especially tense stage of the Cold War.” This put the government under immense pressure to act and address the situation. [after the freedom rides] the Kennedy administration urged SNCC to focus on voter registration SNCC started focusing on not just desegregation but also voter registration, more young people got