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** – Brown V. Board of Education leads to integration of schools, more and more people trying to help
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** –Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat and let a white man sit down, arrested, Montgomery Bus Boycott, integration of the city's buses!
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** -- wanted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, so 9 Black kids entered the school, violent but successful
 * 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** –refused to move from segregated lunch counter until served, led to freedom riders

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** –founded to organize protests against segregation in Deep South, nonviolence


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

**Tweet –blacks and whites traveled around for interstate segregation on buses ** 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –April 12, 1963, African Americans marched in Birmingham, many jailed, more and more joined the march, successful

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** –August 1963, thousands of people of all races, marched to D.C. to demonstrate for civil rights and against segregation in U.S.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –landmark in American history, enforces constitutional right to vote and many other things
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – 1964, large numbers of young people traveled to Mississippi to help African Americans register to vote
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –most successful civil rights act passed, deals with voting rights of all people
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – protest segregation in Alabama, 3 marches all together, very violent
 * 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** – Voting Rights Act, African American men got the right to vote

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – helped African Americans get more rights, provided programs helping poor, elderly, women and the disenfranchised
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –protests in Chicago, many whites weren't interested in integration, riots arose, Martin Luther King, assassinated!!!
 * 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** – didn't know whether to become more aggressive or less violent, protests and riots arose
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**