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 complete 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** – //** Plessy 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** – Americans see racism as evil, fighting 4 freedom in EU, wage increases, & contact 4 unity made civil rights efforts successes.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Bus-boycotting from Rosa's arrest on her refusal to stand! BIG success, brought attention to civil rights, founded SCLC, & made bus segregation illegal!
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 blacks go 2 integrate school- governor against it & there r threats- Pres. asked 2 b 4 civil rights- LR9 had militia til end of year. Decide 2 close all public schools- no integrating. Lots of media for rights.
 * 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** – 4 students began a sit-in, 70000 taking turns to sit at lunch counters until served, with civil disobedience & nonviolent resistance- from protesters

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Taking students & a nonviolence approach, SNCC had sit-ins to desegregate public facilities & registered African-Americans to vote.


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

**Tweet – To integrate interstate travel- groups traveled together-- black and white-- buses were bombed and passengers attacked ** 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – blacks marched against demonstrations law, but got arrested-- so kids marched-- then arrested, fire hosed-dogs-gas, finally, Birmingham accepted demands-- then Pres. pushed for civil rights act

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** *Tweet **– March on Washington = political rally, on August 28, 1963 in DC. MLK gave his "I have a dream" speech. March was credited for pushing pass the civil rights act. Over 300,000 were in the march.**

What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? <span style="color: #eb1414; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">***Tweet** – Passed 2 protect rights of African Americans, law now changed to fight against a variety of groups being discriminated. Law took a while 2 pass.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">*Tweet **– Freedom Summer, a campaign in US launched June 1964. Its goal 2 register as many African American voters as possible, in MS. It also set up many Freedom schools, and houses in MI to help local African Americans.**
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 <span style="color: #ec0e0e; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">***Tweet** – The most successful civil rights act, was made to promise all americans the right to vote. It was on August 9, 1965 when it was passed.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">*Tweet **– A demonstration 2 protest segregation in Alabama. For a long time African Americans were harassed, beaten, and refused the right to vote, this had to change.** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**
 * Tweet** – The president got 4000 National Guard troops 2 guard the marchers and make sure they were safe.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet **– The Great Society laws an end in discrimination in public places, voter registration, and employment-- what the Movement pushed for.**
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s. <span style="color: #f81212; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet **– Civil rights were there- just discrimination more, minor changes occurred-- and desegregation was against public opinion- the Movement didn't impact the North as much.**

How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s? <span style="color: #ea0b0b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – Disagreements on using violence or not split the movement, and civil rights still came slowly- despite both kinds of protests and assassinations of leaders.