CRM+Tweets


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

**Tweet** –The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote.

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

**Tweet** –March was to support Johnson's Voting Rights Bill. The marchers met with violence and even death. The march earned American sympathy which pushed forward teh CRM movement

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

**Tweet-** Johnson sent troops to protect the marchers to Mongomery. He later signed the Voting Rights Act into law.

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

**Tweet** –Johnson's Great Society provided a series of programs to support the disenfranchized, the elderly, women, and poor. Program examples- Medicare, Medicaid. It helped to movement to push the movement forward

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

**Tweet** –The movement in the north encouraged disagreement among civil rights leaders- some began to resist the nonviolent movement and wanted a more aggressive plan

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

**Tweet** –The movement divided civil rights leaders who wanted a more peacful way to move civil rights and other leaders who wanted to be more aggressive- Examples- Stockley Carmichael and Malcom X


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

**Tweet** –Malcom X believed thta all races could live together in peace- he rejected the separatist ideas of the Nation of Islam


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

**Tweet** – a militancy group who monitered police acctions in the black community and served the needs of the poor and needy later panther leaders were killed viewed as a threat to society.


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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) **

**Tweet – when president kennedy was elected to office he first of all tried to get equall civil rights but he couldn't do that becaus it would up set southern democrats so they passed the CORE-no segragation on buses.**

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

**Tweet**– In early May, activists begin recruiting children to march. By the end of the first day, 700 have been arrested. On May 3rd, 1000 more children show up to peacefully protest finally the police sprayed them with firehoses and beat them.


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

**Tweet** –finally after all the protesting the birmingham white leaders desegragated lunch counters remove segration signs and employ more african americans in down town stores.

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

**Tweet**– the protests in brigamham caused many african americans to support passage of the new laws to protect the civil rights of the people

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

**Tweet** – the law banned segragation in public places, it also created an emloyment opportunity commission to prevent job discrimination. finally segragation was illegal in the US.

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

**Tweet** –people were trying to get african americans to have the same voting rights as every one else and so they didn't have to take the literacy tests any more.

**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 Americans began to see racism as evil- More African Americans were determined to fight for equality-African Americans had more resources.


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

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks is arrested for sitting in an all white place on a bus- church groups organized a boycott- in 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that the segragation law was unconstitutional-Boycott worked.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) **

**Tweet** – It ended segragation on Montgomery buses- help find SCLC- Dr.King becomes a famous civil rights leader.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) **

**Tweet** –In 1957 nine african americans were enrolled in central high school, the governor faubus refused to enroll the students and the protest started after that.

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

**Tweet** – Civil rights victories angered many of the southerners, and the ku klux klan started using violence against the african americans segragation fought hard against african americans civil rights.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) **

**Tweet** – It was a sit in they sat there and protested till there demands were met every week more and more protesters would come back to protest- segragationalist started abusing the protesters by beating them.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) **

**Tweet** – It stood for the students nonviolent coorinating committee, this group helped increas the pressure for change in the 1960s, they were an all youth group.