CRM+Tweets

** Tweet ** –Americans saw racism as evil. They fought for a white mans freedom so why shouldn't they have it?
 * 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 said no to giving up her seat. Community heads organized a bus boycott because of the arrest. They chose Martin Luther King Jr. as a leader. People walked everywhere.

** What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? ** **(CA 816, [|video] )** ** Tweet ** – U.S. Supreme Court later ruled bus segregation un-constitutional 331 days later. People realize the intensity of segregation.

** What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event? (CA 817) ** ** Tweet ** – 9 students want to go to a white school. Governor says no. Supreme Court says yes. Public schools close next year because of this.

** 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 ** – Four boys sat at a white lunch counter until the store closed. This ignited a wave of non-violent protests. The protestors were beaten and some were arrested on “Disorderly Conduct”. Impact: Nashville became the first major city to begin to de-segregate.

** Provide a tweet describing SNCC. ** ** (CA 817) ** ** Tweet ** – It was the youngest group of protestors who went to the most segregated parts of the south and protested peacefully.


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


 * What happened on the Freedom Rides? ** **(CA 818, [|video] )**
 * Tweet – Buses that went from the north to the deep south in order to de-segregate the south. **


 * Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video]  ** ) **
 * Tweet ** – during a march at Birmingham, people recruited children to march.

** Tweet ** – MLK got arrested and went to jail where he wrote a book about protests.
 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **** (CA 819-820, [|video] ) **

** Tweet ** – Showed that civil rights was a peaceful protest.
 * What was the impact of the March on Washington? ** **(CA 820, [|video] )**

** Tweet ** – This law banned segregation in public places such as hotels restaurants and theatres.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? ** **(CA 820)**

** Tweet ** – Northerners traveled south to get black voters while they endured beatings, murders, and arrests.
 * What was Freedom Summer? ** **(CA 821,** [|Freedom Summer], [|video]  ** ) **

** Tweet ** – Banned several tests that kept blacks from voting.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ** **(CA 821)**

** Tweet ** – MLK got tons of people to march to Montgomery, the capital of Alabama in order to speak in front of thousands of people so the governor would pass a bill.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ( [|video], [|video] ) **

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

** Tweet ** – A "great society" demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement? ** **(CA 822)**

** Tweet ** – There were no laws denying black civil rights, the blacks were just segregated against.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822, ** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] ** ). **

** Tweet ** –A series of riots broke out in Chicago which is not the kind of "peaceful protest" that was intended by MLK.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s? ** **(CA 822-823)**

** Tweet ** –He dreamed of a nation in which all races could live together equally but he was gunned down in 1965.
 * Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) **

** Tweet ** – They use law, and physicality in order to rule over the black community in order to get civil rights.
 * What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) **