Civil+Rights+Tweets

** Civil Rights Movement Tweets ** ** Mara Peoples ** ** History 8-4 **

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

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – More American's began to view racism as evil. Many white americans began to see racist beliefs that had contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust, they began to recognize that racism had no place in America. Also the war made more African Americans more determined to win equality at home. African Americans also gained important resources to help them fight segregation. More moved to cities for work, they made more money and formed contacts with one another at work.

**What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video )** **Tweet** – All African American's refused to use the buses in Montgomery in protest because a women who refused to give up her seat to a white man and was later punished by being sent to jail for "breaking the laws". They did all they could for transportation except using the buses.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** **(CA 816, video )** **Tweet** – This boycott led Martin Luther King Jr. to face and the biggest target of Civil Rights and brought the problem of Civil Rights to a national level this was also a big victory for the African American. This process took a long time and became very stressful to keep up. It was also publicity for the movement.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** **(CA 817)** **Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9 African American students who are known as the Little Rock Nine wanted to be sent to a high school in Little Rock but the Governor refused to allow those students into the school. President Eisenhower fought against this segregation by using armed forces at the schools and that year only one African American graduated and one was kicked out of school.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** **(CA 816)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Massive Resistance threatened the desegregation of schools in Little Rock Arkansas, when 9 African American students were called to enroll at a high school in Little Rock where they were faced with the hatred of those opposed to want segregated schools.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **(CA 817)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a diners, African Americans would sit-in at counters and sit in silence. They would not be served and faced racial attacks who refused to have African American's sitting in the same diners. When police enforcement got involved they arrested the African Americans who were quietly sitting. They took served their unreasonable punishments.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **(CA 817)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was a program that fought against some of the most horrid places in the south but the people who were fighting were college students who wanted to make a difference. This led to the desegregation in Nashville.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">** Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** **(CA 818, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet –** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1961 More whites joined against discrimination. Groups of blacks and white traveled by bus around the South challenging discriminatory laws.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? (** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Project "C" in Birmingham], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|video] **)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- In Birmingham where 1000 students were protesting outside when police arrived and African American's were faced with the deathly blows of fire hoes. They released the dogs and 75 people were placed into an 8 person cell. This is when people really started to pay attention.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963?** **(CA 819-820, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿﻿An outraged public forced the leaders of Birmingham accepted the demands of the Freedom Marchers. President Kenedy was outraged and had seen enough of the racial violences. A March on Washington was going to be put into place in support of the Civil Rights Act.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** **(CA 820, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿They gathered to show that it was time to end the discrimination against African American's. This day was a landmark in American History and Martin Luther King Jr's speech was a highlight where he shared his dream of equality for everyone, and his words made many people feel free.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** **(CA 820)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿The Civil Rights Act barred states form using different voting standards for blacks and whites.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **What was Freedom Summer?** **(CA 821,** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Freedom Summer], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video **)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿﻿It was when hundreds of volunteers both black and white people traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters who couldn't understand the full process of the voting system because it was so new to them.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** **(CA 821)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿This act banned literacy test and other laws that would keep African American's from registering to vote. It also sent federal officials to register voters.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|video], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Violence wasn't getting better. This march was across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and met with massive police resistance. With federal protection the march was 5 days to the Montgomery government.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> ** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿The Voting Right's Act will soon be created which will force states to end discriminatory voting practices.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** **(CA 822)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿The Great Society provided programs to help the disenfranchised, the poor, the elderly and women. It also included the promotion of education, end discrimination and the protection of the environment.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿Africans weren't denied any rights so they moved to the North and whites began to join the SCLS.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** **(CA 822-823)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Riots are beginning to break out nationwide. Martin Luther King was assassinated which the nation morned over. Malcolm X is starting to come out and in the late 60's progress for African American's came slowly.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X.** **(CA 822,** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] **)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿his message of black pride, self sufficiency, and self-defense "stands in stark contrast" the Civil Rights Movement's non-violence. He becomes nationally known and his words inspire many black people.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **What is the story with the Black Panthers? (** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Black Panther Party] **)** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿In 1966 The Black Panther Party forms in Oakland,California. It is put in place to help the poor and needy and watch police action in the black community.