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** – More Americans began to see racism as evil, African Americans fought for freedom in Europe and wanted some in the USA, and they began to come together in cities, churches and the streets to make contracts for the Civil rights movement

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video ) **

**Tweet** – Rosa parks got on a bus and refused her seat to a white man so she was put in jail so many African Americans began a boycott against the buses in which the buses fairs dropped car pooled with each other or walk in any weather for 13 months

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video ) ** **Tweet** – it was called unconstitutional on November 13 1956 so African Americans could now sit were they pleased this also led to the founding of the SCLC which coordinated protests across the south, MLK becomes an important figure in the CRM

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – nine students tried to go to a all white school, eight got phone calls saying national guard troops would pick them up but then turned it down. one student tried to get to school but national guard troops stopped her.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – It was the creation of groups know as the WCC white citizens council to prevent desegregation. It was very effective in delaying the desegregation of schools and other places.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Four College students walked into a bar and ordered coffee but did not get it. Came back with more people each day, were beat up but many stores and restaurants changed their minds and began to serve them.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a committee that was formed for the younger people because of the success of the sit-ins. This group and the SCLC increased the pressure for change in the 1960's.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video ) ** **Tweet – The freedom rides were protests against segregation on interstate bus rides. African Americans would sit in the front of buses and refuse to move at terminals black riders would use "white facilities" they were beat up by segregationists on the trip**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – children were taking part of the protest were then Bull Connor ordered fire hoses and police dogs to be used the world saw this and thought blacks should get equal rights after five days there was 2500 prisoners 2000 of them children

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video ) ** **Tweet** – Since they knew that violence was going to be used against them the decided to protest there to let the world know what was going on. Police used fire hoses and dogs on the protesters including on kids so the world saw how bad it was.

The protesters got desegregated lunch counters, the removal of segregation signs and employ more African Americans in downtown stores.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video ) ** **Tweet** – 250,000 marched to washington on Aug 28, 1963 they protested for civil rights legislation President Kennedy promised support for the protesters and the passage of civil rights laws

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – the law banned segregation in public places like hotels and restaurants. It created the EEOC (equal employment opportunity commission) it said that segregation was illegal in America

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Freedom Summer], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ** ) ** **Tweet** – it was a voter-registration drive, it brought northern collage students into mississippi to work with SNCC organizers they faced bombing beating arrests and murder but still helped out.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – It banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks form voting, and also sent federal officials to register voters.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|video], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )** **Tweet** – marching to get voting rights got to the <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">Edmund Pettus Bridge, where Alabama state troopers struck the marchers with clubs and fired tear gas canisters into the crowd. MLK with them

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – He sent 4000 national guard troops down to Selma to protect the protesters

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** –It was to end poverty and racial justice. African Americans could now just focus on living their lives instead of staging protests for their rights.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – There were no rights in the North so MLK started to protest in Chicago. Leaders of the protest could not agree on what to do since the civil rights law was already passed. Whites would not sell land to African Americans or hire them.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – African Americans could not decide on what to do and Martin Luther King and malcolm x were both killed

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – At first he wanted to separate from whites all together then after a trip to Saudi Arabia he thought that all races could come together and live in peace. He was shot and killed by members from his group because of this change. He also thought at first that violence could be used.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – The black panthers was from oakland were the had guns to monitor the police the came up with ten point to improve social and economic live for them they also served the needy. The got in a fight with the police which resulted in some Black panther deaths <span style="color: #55514c; font-family: 'Lucida Garde','Lucida Sans',Arial,Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px;">Armed with law books, breakfast programs, and guns, the group aggressively monitors police actions in the black community, serves the poor and needy, publishes a newspaper, and earns a following. Its founders, <span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Bobby Seale] and <span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Huey Newton], present a <span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #336699; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[|ten-point program] for improving social and economic conditions for African Americans. Soon, their movement spreads to 25 cities across the nation.