Question

How did young people energize the civil rights movement in the 1960s

Answer 1

Young people mostly African Americans some Whites energized the movement by joining together and staging many sit ins at restaurants library’s places that would refuse to serve African Americans, they even went on these rides on buses that went cross country they them freedom rides/freedom riders they did this to test the governments willingness to enforce the law and protect them unfortunately they were attacked. Hope this helped!