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 saw rascism as an evil that didnt belong in the US. Also blacks were determined to get freedom after fighting for it in europe.

**Tweet** –**There was a woman who refused to give up her bus seat!A preacher frm Atlanta came and led a bus boycott**.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – ** There was a mob that refused to allow the Gov to desegragate schools. They wanted to kill the black students going to little rock so the mayor evacuated the schl. **
 * 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** –Students decided to fight against segregation by beggining a sit-in. These students came back for weeks bringing more and more protesters every time.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** –The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee was a group of youth that protested with nonviolent approaaches like sit-ins.


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

 **Tweet –** People from different races would ride around in buses demanding desegregation. These people faced violence several times on their journey. This program was sponsored by CORE.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – There was a big peaceful protest in birmingham, but the police and fire department came in and unleashed dogs and sprayed fire hoses at the people

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – thousands of people led a protest march for segregation led by civil rights leaders through Washington it was the turning point for the public for the civil rights movement.

**Tweet** – This act protected the rights of African Americans and then was used for other groups to protect their rights.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

**Tweet** – It was a campaign to raise the registration for African American voters. It did this so the enthusiasm for African American civil rights didn't die down.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

**Tweet** – It was the first law to guarantee the voting rights of all Americans. Even after this law southern states still tried to find out ways to keep African Americans from voting.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

**Tweet** – Protestors marched from Selma to Montgomery but many didnt make it to their destination. 600 of the protestors were beaten. King and the others made it and protested. Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** **Tweet** – Johnson sent four thousand federal troops to defend the marches through Alabama.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

**Tweet** – Johnson planned to end poverty and racial injustice. His program helped minorities, the elderly the poor and the women. It will help because of the push from the president for civil rights.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

**Tweet** –In the North there was no laws about civil rights but the whites in the area decided to discriminate against blacks anyway. Change in civil rights was almost non existant in the north.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

**Tweet** –The movement starts to get divided after dr. King is Assasinated.Some blacks want to stay with the nonviolent approach but some say that things need to change and they need to take on an aggresive approach
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**