CRM+Tweets

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – Making there leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and also promoting the principle of nonviolence.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks started a Bus boycott by not getting up when asked to by a white man. After many protest and boycotts, segregation in busses became illegal.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Nine students were asked to integrate a white school. It lasted half a day until riots began. The students were then escorted back to school by the US army and a national guardsmen guarded them everyday.
 * 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** – 4 black students began sit ins at white counters until they were served and the movement grew to 70,000. It resulted in the integration of lunch counters.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Well, the SNCC is a group that stands for Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee. A group a black students refused to leave a lunch counter where they were denied service. This sparked a wave of later sit-ins across the country.


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

**Tweet – **  Civil Rights activists would ride interstate buses into segregated southern states. The Freedom ride left Washington D.C. on May 4th, 1961 and was scheduled on to arrive in New Orleans and after that riots and protests would begin about segregated busing systems. 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Adults would get the children to protest because the adults had to make money working. Thousands of children were thrown in jail and the next day they keep protesting. Gas, fire hoses, and even gas was used. Lead for push of civil rights bill and march on Washington

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – Large political rally for jobs and freedom that was in Washington D.C. It was organized by civil rights organizations and had hundreds of thousands of marchers. It helped pass civil rights act and National voting rights act.

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - It outlawed unequal applications of voter registration and racial segregated in schools, **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public **
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Was a campaign to attempt to register as many African American voters possible in Mississippi. Also set up many freedom schools and freedom houses throughout Mississippi.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Outlawed <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: sans-serif,helvetica,sans-serif;"> **d** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">iscriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement of African Americans in the United States
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Were three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of american civil rights. One march was even called Bloody Sunday. Many people were attacked with clubs, police, and tear gas.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

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: #161313; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In result to the Selma March London B. Johnson urged the Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and he was succesfull. This act outlawed discrimitory voting.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He the told Alabama Governor that he would not tolerate any more violence. When the march resumed the president sent troops to guard it. He used public anger to push for voting rights.
 * 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;">In the north there were no laws that denied African Americans their rights there was just pure discrimination. Whites would not sell property and give them jobs. Their frustration led to riots. 164 riots broke out in 9 months
 * 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** – The movement starts dividing and making all black power, kicking the whites out.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**