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** – More people see racism as evil. Blacks more determined for equality. Gained more resources to help them fight. **What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?** **Tweet** – Blacks boycotted buses. Martin Luther King Jr. elected president. Boycotted over 1 yr. King death threats. Achieved integrated buses. **Tweet** – After Brown case integration at high school. Angry whites wanted to be lynched. U.S. military guarded 9 black students from harm. 1 graduate **What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – Nonviolent protest. Sat white lunch counters until they were served. Civil disobedience. Broke laws many blacks were arrested. **Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee promoted nonviolent protesting for civil rights and against segregation and certain laws
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?**

 **Tweet – ** Groups of people of all races that rode southern buses to demand desegregation of buses and many restaurants.  ** What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** Boycotted many stores in Birmingham. Led sit ins at all white counters. Many blacks arrested including Martin Luther King Jr. **Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – Several hundred thousand people all races marched on D.C. to demonstrate 4 Civil Rights and against segregation. March 4 Jobs and Freedom. **What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** **Tweet** – Very broad and covers mainly voting and segregation laws. Huge landmark. Legal basis for Civil Rights. Used in fights by many minorities. **What was Freedom Summer?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Registered African American voters. Exposed injustice and left unforgettable imprint on the counterculture. **Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – African Americans cannot be denied right to vote because of their race. Maybe most successful civil rights act passed by Congress. **Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – A historic demonstration that protested against segregation in Alabama. More than 320 participated in the 54 mile hike. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The first two marches made him sent the bill for the Voting Rights Act to Congress and the third march helped speed it along its journey. **Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Americans were to seek a great society that ends poverty and racial injustice. Series of programs to help poor, elderly, and women **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** – Made protests in North. No laws that took away civil rights whites just discriminated against blacks. No jobs or property opportunities. **How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Some blacks stuck with non violence and others started riots and cooperated with whites. Malcolm X had ideas 4 a peaceful world 4 all races.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**
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