CRM+Tweets

**Tweet** – Voting and Civil Rights Acts banned discrimination in areas like jobs, real estate, and union membership. Sit ins and boycotts eventually integrated restaurants and buses. Marches were popular and got blacks closer to equal civil rights.
 * **Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks is arrested for sitting in white section of bus. Starts bus boycott in Montgomery. boycott successful. SC declares bus segregation unconstitutional in Nov. 13, 1956. Integration begins on buses.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Alabama gov. interferes with desegregation. puts national guard troops in front of school stopping desegregation. District court says to stop. doesn't listen. 9 black student get into the school with help of NAACP.
 * 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** – 4 black college student sat in at a restaurant until they were served. Student Excutive Committee of Justice formed and boycotted til they were served. 27 more studnets joined the sit in. boycotts successful. By July, 9 restaurants desegregated their lunch counters.

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet – They ** **rode on interstate buses and protested the decision in Boynton v. Virginia** || 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 *  What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Birmingham was one of the most segregated cities in the south and became the center of the fight for civil rights. many demostrations and protests occured there. MLK led many marches through there and read some speeches there to try to break down segregation. The boycotts, sit ins, and marches eventually led to end of Alabama's segregation laws.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – Several hundred thousand people of all different races marched to DC to support the civil rights battle. MLK gave his "I Have a Dream" speech here, where 200,000 people watched from the reflecting pool by the Lincoln Memorial. MLK's speech revitalized the civil rights movement and showed the govt. that action is necessary.

**Tweet** – law covers multiple areas of discrimination but mostly voting rights and segregation. intially passed to protect African American rights, multiple minority groups have used it since in their fight against discrimination.
 * 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** – attempt to revitalize the fight for civil rights. People would go around and try to expand voter registration drive in areas where opposition was high.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet- guarranteed voting rights for all US citizens. authorized use of voting registrators and prevented states from changing voting laws w/o consent of fedral govt.** <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – lasted from March 21-25, 1965 to protest segregation in Alabama. last of 3 marches from Selma that spring
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**
 * 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** – help with getting better medication and doctors, education, urban problems, and transportation with new major spending programs that will improve these areas.
 * 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** – relied on energy of young activists, many drifted away in mid-1960s. Many leaders became upset with white involvement in the movement and looked more at the concept of black power. || <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black';">
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**