CR+Tweets

**Tweet** – //** Plessey overturned by SC, separate is not equal, schools must desegregate “with all deliberate speed”, should lead 2 more – bye bye Jim Crow? Will be some opposition! **// (that’s 138 characters … and a pretty complete tweet!)
 * EXAMPLE TWEET – Why was Brown v. Board important?**

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

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – Television and mass media, like newspapers and magazines.

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

**Tweet** – African Americans boycotted the buses because of Rosa Parks. this caused the Montgomery bus system to lose a lot of money.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – The Montgomery bus system lost a lot of money and the buses eventually became integrated.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Soldiers had to protect colored students as they entered Central High because of the massive violence towards them.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – Massive resistance toward desegregation. People used violence to resist and other things.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Protesters did sit ins, which was basically blacks sitting at white lunch counters. The results of this event were that lunch counters became desegregated.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The SNCC organized non violent protests like sit ins and marches.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – People rode on buses throughout the south and lots of the buses got destroyed and many people got killed.**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Many children marched and got attacked with fire hoses and attack dogs. This showed alot of the South how bad it was for blacks.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – It caused people all across america to support the passage of civil rights laws.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – It got President Kennedy to support the passing of civil rights laws.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – It banned segregation in public places and prevented job discrimination.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – it was when the SNCC organized a voter registration drive for blacks.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – It banned laws that kept blacks from voting and sent federal officials to register voters.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – The march was met with MASSIVE police resistance and many people were injured or killed.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – He and congress passed the voting rights act of 1965 which allowed blacks to register for voting without opposition and resistance.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – It promoted education, ended discrimination, and protected the environment.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – It caused alot of riots because alot of african americans still couldn't get jobs very easily and they were not getting enough economic opportunity in their opinion.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – Because now alot of blacks want to hurt whites instead of using non violent resistance.

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

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** –They moniter police officers in the black community and are armed with guns. they are eventually arrested and thats where they end.