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** – american racism evil, blacks fought for freedom in europe and wanted freedom in US, blacks made more money.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – bus boycot, Rosa Parks doesn't get up for white man, gets in trouble, MLK becomes popular, boycott success
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – nine kids chosen to integrate schools in little rock. The government did not like it so the president had to step in. the kids got to go school, press helped.
 * 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** – blacks started breaking jim crow laws. attempted non voilence, didnt work. ended up causing violence

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe, was a young peoples orghanazation, did lots of kids doing nonviolent protest


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

**Tweet – white and blacks ride busses across the south, violence breaks out a few places. ** 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Marchers marched downtown Birmingham. Many arrested, children took over. Violence used to get them out. Desegregation in Birmingham and world recognition after it

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – organized by MLK, gave famous speech there. Pushed for civil rights bill in Congress. August 1963, march ended @ Lincoln Memorial, when King delivered "I Have a Dream"

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – drive for the registration of African American voters, keep momentem up for civil rights drive.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – first successful voting rights act. Increased voting participation by 10%
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –
 * 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** –

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – two main goals of society were racial injustice and elimination of poverty, programs created to make this possible
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – There were latin american and black demonstrations against segregation of schools. More militant ways of protesting like Black Panthers.
 * 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** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Violence being used and peaceful protestors didn't like that, they stopped protesting, violence now being used.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**