Civil+Rights+Tweets

Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

EXAMPLE – Why was Brown v. Board important? **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 b some opposition! **// (that’s 138 characters … and a pretty complete tweet!) **Tweet** – racism helped rise of Hitler and Holocaust, many now thought it was evil, African Americans moved to cities ad worked-made more money, made more contact with other people
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – after Rose Parks arrest, they were mad, they told African Americans to stay off buses lasted for 13 months, whites gave threats to kill, bomb and imprison, violent reactions of whites to a nonviolent protest got attention
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – after brown v. board schools integrate, some whites got mad, a school in little rock wouldn't let black students into the school, president Eisenhower set blacks to school escorted by jeeps and machine guns, they let them in
 * 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** – four students sat at a lunch counter (white) and wouldnt move until there demands were met, they weren't, they continued to bring back more people to just sit there, they started to happen all over the south, whites became violent, they susceeded 

Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights
 **Tweet** –  protest against segregation on interstate busing, whites would sit in the back, blacks would sit in the front, they refused to move, African Americans would use "whites only" facilities, whites started to use violence
 * 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? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –  civil rights movement gained strength, African Americans wanted to desegregate public facilities and gain better job / housing opportunities, violence increased pressure for change, white leaders agreed to desegregate linch counters, employ more African americans and remove signs. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – demonstration to build civil rights legislation, in Washington D.C., ended with MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, march united many groups that called for passage of civil rights, president Kennedy promised to support

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – it banned segregation in public places, created equal employment opportunity commission to prevent job discrimination, segregation officially illegal in US
 * 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** – voter registration drive for southern blacks, brought northern college students to Mississippi to work with SNCC organizers, they experienced arrest, bombings beatings while working but managed to get 1200 black voter registration roles
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – it banned literary tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote, sent federal officials to register people to vote
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – this was a protest march organized by the SCLC, they crossed a bridge in Selma and troops on horseback attacked them, this was on national TV, pressure rose for fereral action
 * 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** – this demanded Americans to end poverty and racial injustice, series of programs to help disfrancised, women, elderly, poor and it promoted education, end discrimination and protect enviornment, It will cause tensions to be loosened therefore making civil rights eaiser to gain
 * 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** – leaders couldnt decide next steps, protests began, riots, MLK asssasssinated, SNCC began taking more aggressive measures to fight against racism.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**