CRM+Tweets

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – The Brown v. Board of Eduacation case ended segregation in the south.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Montgomery bus boycott. Ended segregation of buses.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Schools tried to desegregate. 9 African-American students entered Little Rock's Central High. Angry segregationists from across  the South surrounded Central High. Eisenhower ordered 1,000 troops to Little Rock.
 * 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** – African American students sat at a counter and refused to leave until restaurant closed. Led to a wave of sit-ins across the country

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – organization comprised of African American students who engaged in acts of civil disobedience to fight racial segregation and injustice in the South.


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

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whites and blacks on the same bus- protesting interstate segregated buses. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Protests <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">received widespread press coverage. President Kennedy stood behind the agreement and sent federal troops to restore order. Motivated hundreds of civil rights demonstrations across the country and led to the end of Alabama's segregation laws.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">several hundred thousand people of all races marched to D.C. to demonstrate for civil rights and against segregation in the U.S. King delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. Showed the government that action was needed quickly.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">law covers many areas of discrimination. Although it was originally passed to protect the rights of African Americans, sections of the law have since been used by a variety of groups in their fight against discrimination.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Black and White students coming together to expand the voter registration drive and taken into areas of the state where opposition and hostility ran high.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">law to guarantee fully the voting rights of all Americans and authorized the use of federal voting registrars and prevented states from changing their election laws without clearance from the national government.
 * 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;"> 600 marchers protested of segregation in Alabama. The third and successful Selma march helped to speed the voting rights act's passage. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **
 * 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="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">President Johnson sent what would become the Voting Rights Act to Congress in light of the violence committed against civil rights workers and African Americans.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">Voting Rights Act of 1965 got rid of literacy tests and other methods of voter discrimination and made sure that all changes in election law be cleared through the courts or the U.S.
 * 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="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comprised Mexican Americans and other Latinos who fought discrimination and demanded equal opportunities in education, housing, and employment in the United States.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

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 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**