Tweets

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – They boycotted busses. Carpools started and people teamed up. Blacks also started going to white schools.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Buss boycot startedrosa parks arrested boycott went on for 13 months
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Showdowns. preventing afro amer from going into schools people tried to lynch people bayonets were used to keep people away
 * 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** – people sat at a lunch counter and didnt leave intil they were served. stayed for 45 mins

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – student nonviolent coordinating committe. pushed for deseregation


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

**Tweet – **  People were arrested and killed. One of the famous people was Edgar Evers
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Many lives lost. One of main leaders was shot and killed. His name was Edgar Evers. Many people and kids were thrown in jail too. King was arrested but kennedy got him out of jail. Children crusades also started but water cannons were brought out.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – march for rights that ended at lincoln memoriol. famous i had a dream speech happened there.

**Tweet** – it was a fight so that blacks could vote in the same places as whites. black voting rose from 10 per to 60 per
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

**Tweet** – it was the summer that all the prostests happened
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – They allowed blacks to vote at white poles and black voting increased
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – It was a very violent protest in which many protesters where beaten like John lewis and other people sopke there
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – He

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – He gave
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

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 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

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 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**