What was the common goal of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides?A) to seek legal remedies to inequality // B) to end segregation in public...

Your correct answer is C, to end segregation in public
areas, such as restaurants and restrooms. A cannot be correct because they did not use
legal means, such as lawsuits, etc. to seek redress. They rather chose to publicly draw
attention to their cause by public demonstrations such as sitting at restaurant counters
or riding on public transportation which previously was segregated. Segregation in
public schools was accomplished by legal means, namely the Supreme Court Case of Brown
v. Board of Education in which the Warren Court held that segregation had no place in
American society. The sit in movement and Freedom riders certainly had no motive to
force segregationists to respond violently, although many of them did, often by terrible
means. The protesters sought to bring about change by peaceful, non-violent means which
would preclude violent responses.