Civil+Rights+Movement+Tweets


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

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? ** **Tweet ** –  Post War Changes, Americans saw racism as evil, win equality at home, moving to cities=more money/resources for protest.

**What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? ** **Tweet ** –  Rosa Parks arrested, did not ride the bus to protest arrest, lasted 13 months, bus segregation law was changed.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? ** **Tweet ** –  Court law was changed led to the SCLC which coordinated Civil Rights protests.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event? ** **Tweet ** – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"> Nine Negros went to a white school. Massive anti black protest. Guards had to uphold Supreme court ruling case decision.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** **Tweet** – This was the white's in the middle class who opposed desegregation. 80% opposed, KKK formed

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"> 4 freshmen blacks went to counter, no service, sit-in, started big movement.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Provide a tweet describing SNCC. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"> Result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, stands for Southern Christian Leadership Conference, it coordinated civil rights protest across the South.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What happened on the Freedom Rides? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet – ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> Deep South project to make journey on bus to integrate, it was attacked and fire bombed, next bus was similar, people were beaten.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> Integration of facilities, gain jobs, housing opportunities. Evil of segregation, Eugene Bull Connor greatly opposed. Impact- desegregated counters, no signs, better jobs

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Can you describe the Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> –  <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> Children participated in protest, hit with water, dogs came, whole country saw what happened

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Describe the March on Washington, including the impact. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> 250,000 people marched, August 28 1963, King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, united groups, Kennedy pledged support

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> Law banned segregation in public places such as hotels, restaurants and theaters; equal employment opportunity, started to make segregation illegal

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What was Freedom Summer? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> 1964, blacks were encouraged to register to vote, 1,200 more blacks could now vote

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> Banned literacy test and other laws that kept blacks from voting.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> March met with resistance, troops, police, arrests, deaths, violent. Then with federal protection, the march proceeded.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> Gave good push to his laws on voting rights, they were signed and passed.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> This helped the poor, elderly, women and the disenfranchised, promoted education and pushed for the end desegregation.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> Riots broke out, whites were angry, King is assassinated in Tennessee.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> Some blacks started to disagree with nonviolence and cooperation with whites. Members left the SCNN and formed their own group, more violent.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;"> He rejected the separatist ideas of the Nation of Islam. Wanted all races to live together in peace.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What is the story with the Black Panthers? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Garde','Lucida Sans',Arial,Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;"> They brought law books, breakfast programs, guns, the group aggressively monitors police actions in the community, served the poor, published newspaper.