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** –

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video) ** **Tweet** – Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting on the white part of the bus. She was an active member of NAACP, used this for the Bus Boycott. At first this passive resistance didn't work.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – It made Martin Luther King the face of the Civil Rights and a target for it's opposition. It made segregated buses unconstitutional and illegal.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Black kids wanted to go to school, governor first said ok, then changed his mind. Eisenhower wanted the issue to be settled in court, didn't work. many riots, blacks escorted into school. In the end government made them all go to private schools.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** –

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – 4 college satin the White part of the counter, but were not served. Kept coming and waiting. They were humiliated abused and arrested, but became a popular form of protests for more than 50,000. They did not fight back.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Student Non-violent colored Commitee. Stronger than the older people formed of young black students. Only non-violent protests. like the Sit-ins.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – Core, the Committee of Racial Equality. Black and White people rode into territory that was in the deep south to get rid of segregated travel. People attacked them and injured them. Both Kennedy's sought to intervene.**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** –

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** –

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** –

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** –

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** –

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** –

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** –

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

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

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** –

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

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** –

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