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** – More Americans saw racism as evil, war made African Americans determined, they gained important resources
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks arrested on bus didn't give up seat to white, church decided Negroes stay off buses Monday, MLK spoke to group, continued boycott
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 African Americans 2 enroll in white school, didn't let them pass, Eckford went, mob followed, white woman took her home, Faubus refused 2 integrate
 * 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** – College students order coffee, waitress refuses 2 give, sat for 45 mins, more protestors, sit-ins spread, whites beat blacks, effective protest

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC. ** **Tweet** – Organization for young people, increased pressure for change

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet –** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">CORE to desegragate interstate buses, didn't give up even w/ attacks, gov. orders 2 integrate interstate buses <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

**What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963?**
 * Tweet** – <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">African Americans wanted integration & better work, whites violent, firehosed people hard, finally leaders desegregate, many black children arrested

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Describe the March on Washington, including the impact. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">250,000 people march in DC, march ends in Lincoln Memorial, MLK gives "I Have a Dream" speech, Kennedy supports

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Banned segregation in public places, no job discrimination, segregation illegal
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">SNCC makes drive for votes for blacks
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Banned laws that prohibited blacks from voting
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Marchers attacked by state troopers, violence broadcasted on TV all over country <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Johnson sent troops 2 protect marchers, also pushed action on voting rights, pushed a bill of voting rights

<span style="color: #ed2121; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet –** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Provides 4 poor, old, women, more education, end discrimination, protect environment. Will equalize 4 African Americans, no racial injustice
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement? **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">African Americans mad they had no power, 164 riots, MLK killed, blacks very angry, SNCC "black power"
 * 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: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Civil right leaders don't know what to do next, different opinions
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**