CRM+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** – Racism was seen differently, people changed their thinking about discrimination and began to think that it should not be tolerated in the U.S., African Americans fought in WW2 and they wanted the benefits of being an American because they earned it, and more African Americans had jobs and money to create more effective Civil Rights protests.

**What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet** – When Rosa Parks was arrested, other members of her church decided to stop riding the buses to protest her arrest. It was called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. **What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** **(CA 816,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet** – It stopped segregation on Montgomery buses, helped the formation of the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) which helped organize protests. It gave MLK jr. a National role in representing Civil Rights.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event? (CA 817)** **Tweet** – Nine African American students enrolled and were going to go to school in an integrated school. Eisenhower had troops protect the nine students as they entered the school. Little Rock Nine encouraged additional Civil Rights protests including sit-ins, a non-violent way to protest.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** **(CA 816)** **Tweet** – A large majority of whites did not want desegregation and used their organizations like the KKK and the White Citizens Council to fight the civil rights protests and attempted to threaten Blacks physically.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **(CA 817)**

**Tweet** – Four college students began a sit-in opposing segregation in a diner in Greensboro. Over many weeks, thousands of protesters ha joined the sit-in. Some whites joined as well. The African Americans were eventually allowed to be served at the counter.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **(CA 817)** **Tweet** – It is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee which was a result of the success of the sit-ins which helped the Civil Rights Movement. They were fighting for racial change.

Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** **(CA 818,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet –** They were protesting by having the blacks sit in the front and the whites sit in the back on the buses.

**Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? (** [|__Project "C" in Birmingham__], [|__video__] ) Tweet – More then 1000 children marched in Birmingham to protest. Bull Connor used firehoses which sent people rolling down the street. He also used attack dogs which bit many teenagers. Many children were arrested at this event.

**What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? (CA 819-820,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet** – People throughout the nation disagreed with how blacks were being treated in their nonviolent protests, causing desegregation with lunch counters, jobs, and the tearing down of segregation signs.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** **(CA 820,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet** – It brought together different groups of people that held same belief about civil rights laws and that the Government should make new civil bights laws.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** **(CA 820)** **Tweet** – It made segregation with whites and blacks illegal in the United States, ending segregation in public places and creating the EEOC which was meant to end job discrimination.

**What was Freedom Summer?** **(CA 821,** [|__Freedom Summer__], [|__video__] **)** **Tweet** – It was a program that promoted voting rights for southern blacks. There were many groups that were part of this program.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** **(CA 821)** **Tweet** – It made literacy tests that prevented blacks from registering to vote illegal and had federal officials register the voters.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. (** [|__**video**__] **,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet** – People were protesting to allow blacks to vote. They were met with violence and some were killed by the police until federal troops were sent in to protect them. They were then granted 5 days of peace.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. (** [|__The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL__] **)** **Tweet** – He sent in Federal Troops to protect the marchers and pushed for voting rights for blacks, signing the Voting Rights Acts, making it a law.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** **(CA 822)** **Tweet** – It was many programs that helped the poor, elderly, women, and discriminated blacks. It wanted to end poverty and racial discrimination.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**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 blacks had legal civil rights but were not granted them because there were many whites who wanted segregation to continue so the blacks started riots. They were tired of not having equal amounts of power or the opportunity to earn money like the whites.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** **(CA 822-823)** **Tweet** – It divided the people who wanted peaceful protests and those that would use violence to get what they needed and not cooperate with the whites.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. (CA 822,** [|__The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X__] **)** **Tweet** – He wanted all races to live together peacefully. He didn’t like the Nation of Islam’s tendency to be violent and be separate from the whites.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**What is the story with the Black Panthers? (** [|__The Black Panther Party__] **)** **Tweet** – The Black Panthers Party is in California and they have guns and law books so they can monitor police actions. They publish a newspaper and helps the poor and needy.