Tweets

**Tweet** – Legal victories provided a foundation for the civil rights movement.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)**

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

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks an african-american woman refused to give up her seat for a white person and was arrested. Then people launched a boycott of the public bus system.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – The boycott was successful in integrating public buses. It was also led to a showing of many non-violent protest.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – They were trying to integrate little rock high school and nine african-american students joined the school some made it through some stopped because there was too much torture and the couldn't handle it.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – 9 students tried to attend a white school at a school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Angry white mobs tried to hurt the new students, all students went with security into school as they had received a call about it the day before. But one student did not have a phone and did not receive the call so she went on the bus alone and had to face an angry mob trying to attack her.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Sit-ins became very popular for african-americans. It was started when four student sat down in whites spots in a diner. This created a huge wave of sit-ins all across the south and it made civil rights groups look to two things to achieve civil rights: education and public accommodations.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The SNCC was the Student Non-violent Coordinating Commitee; it was a group of african-american students from NC that refused to leave a diner counter. Then over the next decade they organized much more than just diner sit ins.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – **Mixed groups sent on segregated buses in South, violently attacked and bus burned, send more, win out

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Civil Rights activists recruit children 2 protest because they won't hurt the income of the family. Also it looks worse when the police attack them.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – After 38 days of protest the business owners made a deal to desegregate the public places.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – Civil Rights leaders plan large march on D.C. 200,000 people go, I Have a Dream speech

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – Banned segregation in public places, prevented job discrimination, segregation was illegal. Weren't always followed.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – Prevented from voting, organized boycotts, started own party, Lydon Johnson cut TV broadcast during debate

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – Freedom Summer encouraged blacks to register to vote, even though they were attacked.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – People aren't allowed 2 vote, they march, 525 of them are attacked, broadcast on TV, people angry at police,

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) **
 * Tweet ** – Passed a law saying that they can vote

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – Promoted education and tried to end discrimination

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – Quarter pop. was black, in segregated neighborhoods, a march is about to start, 10 point agreement 2 desegregate, march happened anyway, failure

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) **
 * Tweet ** – Some people wanted to continue the non-violence but some wanted to become more aggressive.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) **
 * Tweet ** – He believed in black pride, self-sufficiency, and self-defense, was assassinated by The Nation of Islam

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Threatened police if they continued to attack blacks, helped community, presented a 10 point program, unfairly ambushed in Chicago