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**
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? ** 
 * Tweet **  –  more Americans-racism evil, war-made blacks more determined, NAACP created, gained important resources-made more money, etc..

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks-didn't give up seat-arrested, committee created [bus boycott]-MLK president, MLK-death threats-arrested-LEADER, bus segregation-illegal
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 students-wanted to attend white HS, students-kicked out, white protest-HS, soliders took black kids to HS, next year-all schools closed
 * 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** – nonviolent protests, sit-ins-sit at white counter until served, civil disobediance-nonviolent protest **

Provide a tweet describing SNCC. Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, supported young kids-nonviolent sit-ins

Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights 

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> black and white-freedom riders-drove around south-tried to desegregate bus systems, buses-attacked-bombed, many injured

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">MLK and people-walked to down town Birmingham-arrested, another protest-children-arrested-violence, Birmingham-told to intergrate, Kennedy-involved
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-weight: normal;">August 28, 1963, march-ended at Lincoln Memorial, MLK- I Have a Dream, impact-united groups who wanted civil rights laws-Kennedy supported **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">banned segregation-public places, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission-prevent job desegregation, segregation-illegal
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">SNCC-voter-registration drive, Northern college students-work w/ SNCC-bombed-beat-arrest-murder, 1,200 blacks to voter registration rolls
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">banned literacy tests & other laws that stopped blacks from vote, sent federal officials to register voters
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">crossed bridge-state troopers attacked, broadcast on tv, pressure for federal involvement <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * 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: Georgia,serif;">told Alabama Governor-not tolerate violence, march resumed-sent troops to protect, pushed voting bill through Congress

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">helped poor-elderly-women, promote education, end discrimination, protect environment, leads to more acts
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">discriminated blacks, no more interested in desegregation than southerns, blacks-no opportunities-lead to riots
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – b <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">lack power- no more white help, removed white members from SNCC, Malcom X
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**