Civil+Rights+Movement+TWEETs

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!)

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – some white thought racism bad, African Americans determined equality at home, more connections from work, more money
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Churches planned to change, no African Americans will ride the bus, 13 months later Supreme Courts got involved, law changed
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 African Americans students went to public high school, Police men came to school wouldn't let them in, President got involved, students escorted to school (men with guns)
 * 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** – African Americans sit, order coffee, weren't severed because of race, came back and stayed for a while, beat up protesters, eventually served

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet – ** African Americans sat in the front and whites sat in the back, African Americans refused to move
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

People saw what happened on TV, finally realized it was wrong, turning point
 *  What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
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**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – people marched, Martin Luther King delivered speech, Kennedy decided to help, civil rights act of 1964

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Segregation was banned, equal employment, segregation not legal anywhere!
 * 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 for African Americans, whites risked lives to help blacks
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – banned testes that would not let African Americans have the same opportunity 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** – March 7, troops attacking us, shown on TV, president got mad, Alabama in trouble
 * 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** – disfranchised groups of people, help environment, end segregation
 * 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** – Whites treated blacks poorly, whites don't want to change, more riots, blacks got violent
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**