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** – nonviolent protests were becoming much more common. Without nonviolent protests African Americans preformed in the 60s, they wouldnt be equal today.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks refused 2 giv up hr seat 4 white, blacks stayed away from busses, used carpooling, MLK supported the protest & became leader. national achievement and bus seg call illegal.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 black students went to white school, OK gov & mob stopped those black kids from going to school, inter-racial schools laster one morning, military took 9 kids to high school. 1 graduated. next year all pub 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** – 4 college students sat at counter which was for whites and didnt move. whites were violent and whites werent. 70,000 people did it.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was made in 1960 2 arrange protests of African American students in college against segregation in the deep south


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

**Tweet – **  Black and white people would ride state to state hoping 2 improve civil right and end segregation. Many segregationist didnt approve of such actions, fighting in Jackson, Mississippi.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> ** What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** Walked in Birmingham and all went to jail, thousands of childerns went to jail cus dad's needed to provide for fam, police used violence, dogs, water cannons, tear gas. Prez Kennedy made congress create laws 2 stop seg (civil right bill of 1963.) MLK met w/ prez. Cold War, bad image.
 * Tweet** –

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The march on Washington was 1 of the biggest and most well known nonviolent protests known 2 the world. 6 men were the big organizers, 1 had a __dream__.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,helvetica,sans-serif;">Provided rules 4 modern civil rights movement- covers discrimination- most importantly voting rights and segregation- not only used 2 protect rights of African Americans but other groups fighting against other kinds of discrimination- passed July 2 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – goal, get voting rights in Mississippi, both blacks and whites protested, many whites used violence on volunteers, killed both blacks and whites, bombed building, 80 were beaten, and burnt churches.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ArialMT,helvetica,sans-serif;">1st national law to guarantee voting rights of ALL Americans- prevented states from changing election laws without consent of national government- suspended use of literary tests- raised African American voter registration <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – wanted right to vote in Alabama. MLK comes to build support. 320 people, both white and black, march 54 miles, would pitch tents and camp out, all of this was under the steady eye of the Alabama National guard. 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: ArialMT,helvetica,sans-serif;">sent the voting rights act to congress- passed- because of what was happening to civil rights workers and African Americans- enforced 15th amendment- put an end to voter discrimination
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – two goals were 2 get rid of poverty and stop racial injustice.a lot more new spending, like New Deal but different programs were used. led to many acts improving well being of African Americans.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #2c2121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> set stage for cultural, political, and economic change over the next generation- baby boom generation- Democratic National Convention in Chicago- major police brutality against protesters- 4,500 antiwar protesters marched toward site, police beat and tear gassed 1,000 people
 * 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** – many other ethnic groups join in. Mexican Americans now want equal rights. Native Americans begin to push for equal rights as well.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**