CRM+Tweets

**Tweet** – Americans began to see racism as evil, the war made African Americans determined to win equality and they got more resources to help them fight segregation.
 * **Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks did not give up her seat to a white person on the bus, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott which occurred in 1955 and it resulted in the desegregation of buses.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas occurred in 1957, the results of this being the eventual desegregation of the school.
 * 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** – The Greensboro sit-in occurred in Greensboro, NC. It resulted in the desegregation of many other diners across the South.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** **Tweet –Whites sat in the back of the bus, African Americans would sit in the front and use white-only facilities at bus terminals along the route. **

firehoses on the kids, the nation was horrified by this violence.
 *  What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –Children marched in Birmingham to protest segregation, the police used dogs and powerful

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – 250,000 marched in Washington D.C. for civil rights, Dr. King had his "I have a dream" speech, resulted civil rights laws passed, and support from Kennedy.

**Tweet** – Lyndon Johnson passed this law to stop segregation in public places and make equal employment available Equal opportunity employment commission
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – In 1964 SNCC sent northern college students to help southern blacks from mississippi vote. Had to endure beatings, murder, and bombings but still succeeded.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Voting Rights Act made it so states could not have literacy tests and had federal officials register votes. African American votes increased enormously.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> King organize march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights On bridge state troopers beat them but attack broadcast on national television they get sympathy
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – President Johnson makes the great society to end poverty, discrimination and help out elderly and women. One thing it made was Medicare and it is still around today.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – When Martin Luther King is assassinated civil rights leaders want to keep moving. But some want to have violent and aggressive struggles while others want peace. ||
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**