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** – They were beginning to use defiance and would go against the segregation laws.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – It worked out and Martin Luther King Jr becomes a leader
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 kids were chosen to go to school, the governor said he wanted to kids out of the school, troops were called and escorted them to the school.
 * 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 to defy the law, segregation of lunch counters, though supposed to be nonviolent some became violent

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Full name: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It was an organized group of college students against segregation in the deep south.


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

**Tweet – **  Blacks and whites would travel together by bus to ban segregation. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

Thousands of African Americans protested and put in jail, children then joined and got put in jail, second time kids protest violence is used on them. Everyone will see, Kennedy will push civil rights act.
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – People of all different races came together and marched down Washington for equal rights. MLK gave his famous speech, showed the gov. that we need action fast.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act which included voting rights, equality and no more federal gov. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">discrimination.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Many different civil rights groups came together and wanted more African American voting rights. Protests were violent and some were even killed.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – President Lyndon Johnson signed this act which gave voting rights to every American Citizen, no matter there color/race.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –** People protested equal rights in Alabama, first march ended up badly and the second march ended peacefully.
 * 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** – President Johnson sent congress what we know as the Voting Rights Act to Congress.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The two main goals of this society were racial injustice and the elimination of poverty. Programs were 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** –
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

Many riots began to break out in Chicago because in the north there was still discrimination against African Americans.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Violence was being used and the peaceful protestors didn't like that so they stopped protesting, violence was now being used.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**