Civil+Rights+Tweets


 * Define "Civil Rights" -**
 * Tweet ** – no discimination in political and civil life #justice


 * Define "Civil Liberties" -**
 * Tweet ** – individual freedoms like freedom of religion and speech

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

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – americans saw racisim as evil #tidesaturnin

**Tweet** – bus boycott led by King and Rosa Parks
 * What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? **

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** **Tweet** – bus segregation ended

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – 9 african americans went to white school, integration #victory

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – national guard didnt let african american students in on arkansas governers orders

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – 4 african american college students sat @ whites only lunch counter, students gained more support, segregationists got violent #unjust

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – student nonviolent coordinating committee encouraged young african americans to take part in the sit in protests

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** Tweet – **african americans sat in the front of the bus and whites on the back in montgomery, protesters were beaten savagely
 * Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ** **Tweet** – **dr** ** encourages children to peacfully protest, children attacked by police with fire hoses, 2000 arrested #unimaginable **

**Tweet** – birmingham protests led to desegregation of luch counters, remove segregation signs, and more employment by the city's white leaders
 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?**

**Tweet** – president kennedy promised support to civil rights groups

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – banned segregation in public places and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission #finally

**What was Freedom Summer?** **Tweet** – in '64, SNCC organized voter-registration drive for southern blacks, northern college students that volunteered endured bombings beatings and more but added 1,200 african american voters

**Section 3- Selma March**
**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

**Tweet** – VRA banned literacy tests and other obsticales for african american voters, sent officails to register voters

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

**Tweet** – huge police resistence and violence directed towards african american voters very scary

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) **

**Tweet** – Passed the Voting Rights Act

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) **

**Tweet** –helped the poor elderly and women with various programs and passed legislation to promote edu. enviro protection and an end to discrimination

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s**

**Tweet** – whites discriminated against african americans even though there was no legislation, SCLC started campaign in Chicago, rallyed african americans there

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) **

**Tweet** – after MLK was asassinated, many leaders called for black power and physical violence against whites


 * Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **

**Tweet** – at first supported segregation, wanted to stay seperate from whites, then changed mind and imagined a world where all races lived in harmony


 * What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) **

**Tweet** – militant, fully armed and scared many, based in oakland cali, spread to 25 cities,