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**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – People were realizing that racicm had no place in the US. The war made them more determined than ever.

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video ) **


 * Tweet ** – No black passengers on the buses. MLK made a speech. Marches occurred.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video ) ** ** Tweet ** – Deaths, injury's, but this gained attention in the media. Then in 1956 the supreme court ruled that the law is unconstitutional and after that the buses were boarded once again by African Americans and they could sit where ever they pleased.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) **
 * Tweet ** – The Schools would not let African Americans in to the schools under no circumstances. The president didnt want to force the law to be followed, but he had no other choice.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – They would not let any kid or adult pass through the school doors who were African American.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Here a "sit-in occurred. THis is when people would sit in a place and not move until there demands were met. Segregationists began to abuse the protesters. The "sit-ins" were successful.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – It is a group of students who use no violence what so ever to protest their thoughts on segregation.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video ) ** **Tweet – Blacks and Whites traveled together on buses to fight against segregation. People were killed and beaten.**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet ** – The children were completely disrespected and treated horribly.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ) **
 * Tweet ** – Mass Arrests occurred. Martin Luther King was held in solitary confinement for 24hrs. Almost a thousand children were in jail. More children joined and the law force resorted to violence. President Kennedy had seen enough. Civil rights were being thought of.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ) ** **Tweet** – Enourmous numbers of blacks and whites came. A landmark in American History. Kings word made many americans feel free for the first time in their lives.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) **
 * Tweet ** – THis law banned sehragation in public places. It also created a system to prevent job discrimination. After a while segregation was officially illegal all over the US.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Freedom Summer], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ** ) ** **Tweet** – a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – It banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|video], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )**
 * Tweet ** – Violence, killings, and burning occurred daily. King was attacked by black Muslims. Massive police resistance, and many arrests. The march was successful.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – He protests.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – This will help the movement because it is helping everyone who is in need to get back on their feet.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – Things do not go well. They go just like the other marches. They get out numbered and people feel the same way they did as before.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) **
 * Tweet ** – Many civil rights leaders disagreed on the next steps to take. Some wanted to expand the nonviolent struggle and others wanted to be more aggressive.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) **
 * Tweet ** – His ideas are powering the blacks which is good but it is threatening the whites which is not good. He becomes fans of one side and enemy's of another.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Black Panthers fought to win. They used violence and even carried around guns.