4+Civil+Rights+Tweets

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – The Blacks after the war started seeing racism as evil. People began thinking that this behavior was kind of like hitlers in the Holocaust.

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video) ** **Tweet** – In Montgomery, blacks started boarding the buses and they sat wherever they pleased. There wasn't a law against it.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – This started to make the civil rights movement public. People are starting to realize whats happening by seeing this on the news.This started civil disobedience. They tried to do this peacefully.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – There were civil rights protestors that protested for black rights.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – African Americans started to go to schools with whites. The whites didn't like it and they formed mobs on the first day of school and they spit on the blacks as they walked in.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The Sit-Ins were happening. This started when blacks went to a restaurant and sat the bar. They refused to give their seats up to whites and just sat there all day. After this, other blacks started doing it.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The SNCC supported the students and pushed for more civil rights.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – Freedom rides where when white protestor hopped on buses and protested against segregation. The whites would sit in the back of the bus and the blacks the front. The blacks then refused to move.**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – There were freedom marches and many of the black people feared the KKK. There was police protection from the clan.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – In this event, the evil of segregation was exposed to the public.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – The March on Washington brought many civil rights leaders to come and protest. This is when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his 'I Have a Dream" speech.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – This banned segregation in public areas. This also gave blacks equal employment opprotuities.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – Freedom summer was the push for black voting in the south. There were protestors in Mississippi protesting for this too.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – This gave blacks the right to vote.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – This march was blacks protesing against segregation and this got the attention of the SCLC.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – He passed the voting rights act and gave Voting Rights to Blacks.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – Hiss Great Society provided programs to help people in need.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – In the north, there were no laws that denied blacks of their rights. In Chicago, there were protestors joining the SCLC.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – The blacks started gaining momentum and the whites started riots to try to stop their gaining power.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – He exposed his views for black pride and his words inspire people all over the U.S.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – They are police that protected blacks. They were from Oakland and armed.