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 * Define "Civil Rights" - **
 * Tweet ** – The right of people and civil freedom and equality. #civilEquality


 * Define "Civil Liberties" - **
 * Tweet ** – The freedom to exercise one’s liberties(rights).


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


 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813) **
 * Tweet ** – More people thought of racism as evil and linked it to Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. African Americans more determined to win the battle on the homefront.


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


 * Tweet ** – Rosa Parks arrested?!? Lets boycott!! And MLK is rising! #equalityisontheway




 * What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? ** **(CA 816, [|video] )**
 * Tweet ** – African Americans fought back against the white’s segregating them. MLK rises to power and helps the fight.


 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?(CA 817, [|Watch the Video] ) **
 * Tweet ** – Hatred arises at Little Rock school :o. Dwight Eisenhower to the rescue! Still feeling racial tensions.#Discriminationdecreasing [[image:images-13.jpeg]]


 * What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South? ** **(CA 816)**
 * Tweet ** – Whit Citizen Councils and the KKK are upset with the civil rights victories and are delaying desegregation. #equalityisnear


 * What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event? ** **(CA 817)**
 * Tweet ** – African Americans were refused coffee and sat there coming back day by day with more protestors. Some were jailed but it caused an outbreak of sit-ins.


 * Provide a tweet describing SNCC. ** **(CA 817)**
 * Tweet ** – SNCC to help students join the non-violent fight for equality! #equalityfight


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


 * What happened on the Freedom Rides? ** **(CA 818, [|video] )**


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 * White and Black activists would travel by bus around the south challenging the segregation laws. Gov. made segregation on interstates illegal. **


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


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Children and Students gathered and marched through Birmingham. MLK was later arrested :0! #changeinthesouth


 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? (CA 819-820, [|video] ) **


 * Tweet ** – It was showing the brutality of the white police officers and how would arrest so many children but they would not stop fighting for their equality. #stopbirmingham


 * What was the impact of the March on Washington? ** **(CA 820, [|video] )**


 * Tweet ** – It was the beginning of the end for discrimination and people felt for the first time in their life that they were free.


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


 * Tweet ** – It was the first act made to stop segregation and it banned segregation from public places such as hotels ect. #letfreedomring


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


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Hundreds of black and whites traveled to the state of Mississippi to help register the black voters to win the presidential election. Blacks were given literacy tests that were nearly impossible. #therighttovote

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

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 * This act banned the use of literacy tests when registering to vote. It also banned laws that limited the right for blacks to vote. It increase the black voting numbers drastically. #govote! **

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

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 * We tried to march three times, the first time was met by brutal violence, the second was postponed and the third was the real deal**

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

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 * President Johnson passed the Voting rights act so that when blacks voted they wouldn't have to take the impossible literacy test. **

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

**Tweet** –
 * This program promotes education and tries to get the black community out of poverty. It also helps with health insurance especially for the elderly. **

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

**Tweet** –
 * The fight in the north helped the black population get out of the slums and be able to protest for equal housing rights it also helped them when they were denied work because of there color. #bringingthefighttothenorth**

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

**Tweet** – ** The movement moved north and was mostly concentrated on black people buying houses ect. and them in the work place and finding jobs. **


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

**Tweet** –
 * Malcolm X had similar idea's to the civil rights movement such as black pride. He had also ideas like becoming self sufficient and defensive. The big difference between him and civil rights was that his ideas also threatened whites. **


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

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 * The Black Panther that were a group that monitored and questioned police actions, they were armed with loaded weapons and law books **