CRM+Tweets

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – changes in segregation, voting rights, where you could and could not sit made it easier for blacks, balcks wer protesting nonviolently through marches ect. which helped a lot.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet ** – Rosa Parks wouldn't get out of her seat for a white man and a protest took place about segregation on the buses after she was arrested and it suceeded. **Tweet** – They said desegregation in skools was allowed but people wouldn't let them in- finally the african americans were escorted in but they were harassed by students.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?**

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – A group of four people were refused to be served lunch at a restaurant so they sat there the entire day, til the store closed, this lead to desegregation at lunch tables.

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet – Groups of all races took buses around the south fighting for desegregation on city buses and in restaurants. ** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * <span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Students marched and protested for freedom while they were attacked with dogs and hoses and arrested, the impact of this was restrooms, lunch counters, and bubblers were desegregated.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This was to desegregate skools, higher min. wage, and such; 200,000 ppl marched at the lincoln memorial this showed the goverment they needed to mke chnges and fast.

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Covers many areas, mostly voting rights/segregation. Originally for African Americans but has been used by other groups 2 get equal rights.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Campaign beginning June 1964 to expand voter registration. Quickly got violent-3 ppl dead, many injured. Led to confrontation at the DNC, exposed injustice and brutality of the system.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Supported by LBJ, was the 1st nat'l law to guarantee fully voting rights of all Americans. Prevented states from changing election laws w/out clearance from the fed. gov't.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – this took place 2 end segregation in alabama, there were 3 marches in total, the 3rd suceeded and gave blacks the right to vote.
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Gain rights, money, equality for the poor, elderly, women ect. Get social security for everyone. Help the poor. Give them food.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – CRM relied on young activists; many began dropping off in the mid-60s. Militants were displeased w/ whites volunteering and began to want all black power. Murder of King delivered final blow.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**