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Type in the content of your new page here.**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?** **Tweet** – People were starting to see racism as a form of facism and that scares people. So more people wanted to end racism.

**Tweet** – There was a bus boycott because blacks had to move to the back of the bus or give up ther seat if white people needed the seat.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** –  9 black girls were alowed to go to school where whites were because of integration. And all 1 found out that they were being baricaded out by the National Guard.
 * 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** – There was a sit in by black students at a diner in Greensburo. The students had lots of stuff poured on them.

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet – Whites sat at back of the bus and Blacks sat at the front and refused to move on interstate bus rides. **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides? **


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – People were protesting then police came in and sherrif was racist btw he brought dogs and water hoses and then children got hit with this stuff.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – 250,000 people marched in Washington to try and have laws passed for Civil Rights and it all culminated with Kings "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial.

**Tweet** – It said segragation was unconstitutional. And made it illegal to have segragation.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

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 * What was Freedom Summer?**

**Tweet** – Nobody can be deinied the right to vote with literacy tests or any other tests to prevent them from voting.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

**Tweet** – Civil Rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery and were met on a bridge by cops and so federal troops were called in to escort them by.
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – It was saying how there should be no segragation anywhere and since Johnson is the President that will greatly help the movement.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> **Tweet** - Well MLK and Malcolm X were assasinated. So then some people wanted to change it to a more violent movement or keep it peaceful.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**