Civil+Rights+Movement+Tweets

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

 **What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? **  **Tweet ** – After the war, many americans thought that racism was evil.

**What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? **  **Tweet ** – Rosa Parks was arrested, afterwards, the bus segregation law was changed.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? ** <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;"> **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">The bus segregation law was changed, and people weren't as racist. <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event? ** <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;"> **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;">Nine Negros went to a white school and whites made an anti-black protest.

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** **Tweet** – The whites middle class that opposed negroes. 80% opposed, KKK formed

<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event? ** <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;"> **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;">Four negro freshmen went to get served at an all white restaurant, then they were refused and asked to leave. The students were considered as heroes and many followed they're example, also, the shop lost 20% of their annual sales.

<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Provide a tweet describing SNCC. ** <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;"> **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;">SNCC stands for Southern Christian Leadership Conference, it was a line of civil rights protests across the South.

<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6pt;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">What happened on the Freedom Rides? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet – ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Seven blacks and six whites wanted to test the supreme court's ruling in Boynton vs. Virginia(1960) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">, it was attacked and fire bombed, the next freedom ride, the people inside were beaten. ==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">A movement organized to recognize the unequal treatment towards native americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Afterward there were no more racial signs, and native americans got better jobs. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Can you describe the Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Children protested and they were hit with water and dogs came and the whole country witnessed it. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Describe the March on Washington, including the impact. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">250,000 people marched on August 28 1963. Then the "I Have a Dream" speech united groups, and Kennedy supported. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Banned segregation in public places,and equal employment opportunities were created. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">What was Freedom Summer? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> Native Americans were encouraged to vote. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Banned laws that kept native americans from voting. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Provide a tweet describing the ****<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">The march included troops, deaths, and police. Then the march continued with protection. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Helped Pres Johnson's voting laws, they were passed. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">It helped elderly women, and helped end desegregation. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">The king was assassinated and many riots broke out. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Native Americans started disagreeing with trying to be nonviolent towards whites. And many members left the SNCC. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">He rejected separatist ideas of Islam and he wanted all nations to live together in harmony and peace. ====

==== **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">What is the story with the Black Panthers? ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">The Black Panthers bought law books and guns, and they monitors police actions in the community, and published newspapers. ====