CRM+tweets

Civil Rights Movement TWEETS So many events in the Civil Rights Movement – imagine if you were present at all of them! How would you communicate the basic information of each major event quickly and concisely? Well, if we could send some technology back in time, maybe you could “tweet” your way through the Movement.

In this activity, you will report about various events, people, and organizations using Twitter as a model. In case you don’t know, Twitter is a social networking site that allows people to keep up with each other by posting messages of “tweets” that are no more than 140 characters in length. Over the next few days, you will use Chapter 29 and [|ABC-CLIO] to post “tweets” about the events, individuals, and ideas listed below. This will serve as your Civil Rights Era study guide! Cut and paste the material below into a new page on your Unit 8 Online Notebook, and tweet away. Make sure your tweets are comlpete and cover a great deal about the topic ... but are limited in size! Don't worry too much - 140 is just a ballpark figure.

**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 be some opposition! **// (that’s 138 characters … and a pretty complete tweet!)
 * EXAMPLE TWEET – Why was Brown v. Board important?**

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** –Blacks are working through more nonviolent protests againist the violent responses. Gov. sending help to protesters.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** –Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up bus seat. Blacks done riding- Montgomery Bus boycott. MLK gets death threats. Bus segregation became illegal.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – No classes in South for black & white. 9 kids integrate the school. State militia ordered keep kids out. Feds. order integration. President sends Nat. Guard. BIG oppoisition.
 * 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** – Lunch counter, 4 black students sat in whites area. Blacks & whites worked for desegregation. Unlawful = unjust. Non-violent movement = extremely violent response.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** –Group of students who fought for Civil rights of all races in a nonviolent way.


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

**Tweet –**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Freedom Riders travel together on interstate buses/trains. Most races work together for integration.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">1000 black people walk to Birmingham, AL. MLK jailed. 100s of children walk to Birmingham. Many arrested. More people went. Fire hoses and dogs used on children. Led to the Civil Rights Act.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – 200,000 people (all races) marched to Washington D.C. MLK "I have a dream" on Lincoln Memorial. Encouraged gov. to go faster and speed up with civil rights.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The Act covered problems of discrimination including voting rights and segregation.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The SNCC decided to gather together black and white college students to fight for voting rights. Great opposition & tons of violence. 3 killed, 80 beaten, 35 shot at, __all black__.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Prohibited any race be denied the right to vote. Stopped the use of literacy tests and covered many other loopholes used by states to keep African-Americans from voting.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Actually was 3 marches. 1st ended due to violence, 2nd ended peacefully & 3rd was a success. Alabama nat. guard was sent in 2 protect marchers but they made it all the way from Selma Alabama to Montgomery.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Due to the Selma march results President Johnson sends Congress what will become the Voting Rights Act.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The Great Society program provided programs to promote education, end discrimination and portect the enviorment. **
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> U.S. is starting to worry about other non-domestic worries at the time and somewhat disregard civil rights stuff.