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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** –

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

**Tweet** – People protested and did not ride the buses because of the bus segregation. People walked and car pooled instead. People sued the leaders and fined them for boycotting.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – Buses became unsegregated and Martin Luther King Jr. became famous and many more people started to support the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King became the face of the Civil Rights Movement.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The town of Little Rock didn't let black kids go to school after there was the desegregation of schools. Then federal troops were sent to protect the black students and enforce the laws. There were nine black kids who went there and only one graduated.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** –

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – People started the first sit in and a restaurant for silent protesting. People attacked them but they never fought back. Students get more active and in Nashville people integrated their counters.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Southern National Christian Conference. Was an organization that supported boycotting and other Civil Rights organizations.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –** James Farmer started the rides. People rode down into the Uber deep south. They wanted to challenge and make sure the laws were being followed. They were met with attacks and fire bombs. Kennedy w ant to make sure nobody got hurt.

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** –

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** –

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – A march on Washington D.C. People wanted to have Kennedy to support Civil Rights. Quarter of a million people protested. It was all peaceful.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** –

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** –

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** –

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** –

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** –

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** –

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** –

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** –

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** –

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** –