Civil+Rights+Movement

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – More African Americans wanted Civil rights.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – The Montgomery Bus Boycott, because of The Montgomery Bus Boycott African Americans could now sit wherever they wanted to on a bus.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Nine African American students enrolled at Central High School. The Governor of Arkansas refused to let them in the school, On September 24, Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock, the Little Rock nine rode to school, escorted by jeeps armed with machine guns. Paratroopers lined the street and protected the students as they entered Central High.
 * 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 African American college students began a sit in to desegregate a lunch counter at a store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the following weeks, thousand of protesters took part in sit-ins across the South.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – The SNCC is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.


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

**Tweet – **  Freedom rides were meant to stop segregation on buses, they were sucesfull but there was a lot of violence.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – African Americans marched and protested. Martin Luther King was put in jail. Kids marched and were also put in jail. Its going to end up helping a push for a civil rights bill.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** –In August 1963, several thousand people of all races, led by leading civil rights advocates, march to Washington D.C. to demonstrate for civil rights and against segregation in the United states. In all, some 200,000 people marched to the reflectiong pool in front of the Lincoln memorial where king delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. The procession made more people want civil rights.

**Tweet** – It was a act that was Enacted on July 2, 1964, the law covered many areas of discrimination, most notably voting rights and segregation.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

**Tweet** – It was a movement that the Council of Federated Organizations took so enthusiasm for African-American rights would not fade.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –The Law was enacted on August 9, 1965, it guaranteed voting rights for all Americans.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –It was to protest segregation in Alabama.
 * 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 sent what would become the Voting Rights Act to Congress.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – President Johnson said his society would end poverty and racial injustice.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Mexican Americans and Latinos wanted Civil rights and they wanted better education.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – It began to rely primarily on young activists, many of whom began to drift away in the mid-1960s.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**