CRM+Tweets

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** –
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** –  Rosa Parks started the bus boycotts by not giving up seat. Blacks boycott buses to protest the abuse blacks face on buses. There were threats against MLK but he continued to lead the blacks on their protests.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – There were no classes for black and whites. 9 children chosen to integrate the school. National Guard sent to escort the students to school.
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?**

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – Sit-ins were people sitting down and not leaving until served at a lunch counter. Simple, but breaking the law, laws seen as unjust.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – The SNCC was the Student Nonviolent Cooridinating Committee. They strived to push for nonviolent protest like sit-ins and marches. But Stokely Carmicheal became leader and moved toward militancy.


 * Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

**Tweet – ** Freedom riders travel on interstate buses/trains together to integrate systems. Blacks and whites worked together to pull this off. 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Black leaders targeted the "most segregated city" in North America. They marched thru downtown and were arrested. Children joined the march. Birmingham leaders used violence and mass arrests to stop them. Feds were angry.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – A quarter of a million people marched through Washington D.C. to protest for civil rights. Martin Luther King devlivered his signature speech from the Lincoln Memorial.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The act made segregation illegal in all public places, like theaters, hotels, restaurants. It prevented job discrimination.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The SNCC organized large drive to push for voting rights in south. Marchers travel to Montgomery, state troopers attacked them. Nation watched as Feds start taking action.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The act restricted literacy tests and such that stopped blacks from voting. Feds started registering voters.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Protesters march for voting rights, when crossing bridge, state horseback troopers attacked them. Nation watched on national news. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He sent troops to protect the protesters and used the public's anger to help push a bill through Congress.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The "Great Society" was a nickname for a program that helped the poor, elderly, women, and ended discrimination. This will help blacks get jobs and education without discrimination.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The yankees discriminated against them, but blacks had civil rights. The protests did not accomplish much in Chicago.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MLK was assassinated, riots broke out, and new black leaders were either extremely separatist or were killed.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**