CRM+Tweets

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet **  – postwar changes- rascism viewed evil-bc Holocoust. more determined to win equality at home. more resources-new jobs, more money and connections.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

** Tweet **  – Rosa refuses 2 give up seats 4 whites -boycott continues-national attention. MLK rises to leadership of community. Bus segregation declared illegal-first triumph ** Tweet **  – 9 Black students first to integrate schools by going to Central High. Violent mobs. President sends protection-mob rule does not override decision of Supreme Court.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**
 * 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 **  – segregated lunchcounter-4students, then mor sat at white only lunch counters-resistance led to desegregation of sittins peaceful civil disobedience

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">** Tweet ** <span style="color: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Black College Students against segregation, non-violence to desegregate public facilities. Stolkely Carmichael, changes goal to black power-SNCC declines

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px;">FR-groups of Black and Whites getting together to integrate interstate travel. Traveled from DC to Jackson-hit violence along the way. Lead to integration. ** <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: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">protest although law against it. Day 1 1,000 kids to jail-violent police-watercannons, teargas, fierce dogs. city and Us look bad. TURNING POINT-kennedy to push for civil rights bill, Birmingham to integrate.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Thousands, all races, march to Washington for CR & jobs ($$). "I Have a Dream" speech. CR renewed impetus & government sees they need to take instant action.

<span style="color: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">signed in July. segregation banned in public places. prevented discrimination with EEOC <span style="color: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">(Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">segregation officially illegal in us
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">** Tweet ** <span style="color: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Freedom summer attempted to register Black voters. Local whites killed and beat many blacks & burned and bombed many buildings. Violence radicalized many blacks.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">** Tweet ** <span style="color: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> –pushed by johnson- banned tests and other laws keeping blacks from voting. federal officials to register voters. 50% increasenblack registered voters in Selma
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">** Tweet ** <span style="color: #6479f7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> –3 marches protest segregation in Alabama. Violence-President Johnson orders to protect 3rd march. King speaks. President issues Voting Rights Act, passed. <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** –Johnson sends Voting Rights act, because of violence, passed. August 6- signed into law-to enforce fifteenth amendment.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –Programs made to expand role of Fed. Gov. in domestic policies-modled after New Deal. Help CR -legislation to ensure CR that were denied to most blacks Post-Civil War.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –no laws aainst rights-but bad discrimination. Black frustration led to riots in norht and assasination of MLK Jr. Blacks outraged. nonviolence beginning to be rejected. "blak power" feelings arise.
 * 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 is splitting into violence and non-violence. Instead of Black Integration (non-violence) some are turning to Black Power ("any means necessary").
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**